I just wanted to chime in to say that you almost never need to know exactly when a metric is updated. Before you start exporting additional timestamp metrics, you should really ask yourself whether you actually need them. What problem do they actually solve?
--Matt On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 5:54 PM Stuart Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/08/2023 21:00, Moe wrote: > > Thanks Brian that was really helpful, > > > > 2. The use case I want this for doesn't need continuous ingestion. In > > that case is there a way for me to add time stamp to MetricFamilySample? > > That isn't how Prometheus works. It will scrape that metric every 10 > seconds to 2 minutes. If you need to know when that set of metrics was > created a common pattern is to include a metric who's value is the > timestamp. > > -- > Stuart Clark > > -- > 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/d401af4d-8583-d2d6-dbbe-89853000e421%40Jahingo.com. -- --Matt -- 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/CAGyBzcz6B%2B-vQdo1F7oPXKQYEU%3DjtuQV-S6KmZDqo%3DATMTFX4w%40mail.gmail.com.
