Does Prometheus support remote-write of metrics with future timestamps (+1,2 years)? I am aware other time series databases based on Prometheus model - such as Cortex, Thanos validate timestamps and throw out of band exceptions.
On Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 1:31:11 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > If you're producing metrics into the future, I would recommend using the > remote write receiver model, rather than the scrape model. It handles this > kind of use case much more easily. > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 6:28 PM Johny <[email protected]> wrote: > >> we are integrating a legacy system, that allows storing metrics with >> future timestamps, into our centralized prometheus instance. The use case >> here is that the forecast series is generated from external machine >> learning models and used for capacity planning, anomaly detection and >> stress analysis -- and alerting on forecast metrics. >> >> I'm trying to improve my understanding of the constraints in Prometheus >> enforcing timestamps to be current. Besides implementation complexity of >> handling TS blocks with future timestamps, are there design considerations >> on why this is unsupported? In this case, how do we integrate Prometheus >> with these legacy systems? Even the long term scalable stores such as >> Thanos, Cortex don't support this requirement. >> >> Note that it is not feasible to replicate the models in PromQL in real >> time as the models are too complex and have dependencies on other workflows. >> >> thanks >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Prometheus Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/7b475aa8-be4e-49f6-b9ff-18200a123ba3n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/7b475aa8-be4e-49f6-b9ff-18200a123ba3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/d5a801ea-fdbe-4d5b-92bd-5b650f28cca5n%40googlegroups.com.
