So you are trying to get discreet metrics for every run of the batch job? That sounds like an unbounded cardinality problem as you would end up with a timeseries for every run of the batch job. Am I misunderstanding or is this accurate?
--Matt On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 3:22 PM Moe <[email protected]> wrote: > > You're right I don't need the exact time when the metric is fetched. I only > need it to differentiate between iterations within the batch job. Then is > creating a separate metric the best way to go? > > On Tuesday, August 8, 2023 at 4:09:24 AM UTC+5:30 Matt Doughty wrote: >> >> 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/bf01a491-2b12-4f10-b7db-fbf865647496n%40googlegroups.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/CAGyBzczT0Qvw%3DB%2BD8v4_BhhHFNtsp_fysXXVfPwvMB7RnzNyqQ%40mail.gmail.com.
