While each application is different, a rough idea of how many metric there should be would be useful.
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The job label is one of the labels your targets will always have. So how can you use it?
The standard way to use metrics in Prometheus is to declare them at file level, before using them. Why?
Considering using Prometheus, but worried about committing to using our clients?
Alerting is an art. One must be sure to alert just enough to be aware of all problems arising in the monitored system while at the same time not drown out the signal with excess noise. In this blogpost we'll explain some of the best practices to use when alerting with Prometheus.
You may have noticed that notifications from the Alertmanager are text. Wouldn't it be nice if Prometheus sent graphs along?
So you have just discovered Prometheus and want to try it out or use it to replace your old monitoring system but have run into a part of your stack that you cannot instrument with a client library and for which there are no officially supported exporters. What do you do?
Jobs of an ephemeral nature are often not around long enough to have their metrics scraped by Prometheus. In order to remedy this the Pushgateway was developed to allow for these types of jobs to push their metrics to a metrics cache in order to be scraped by Prometheus long after the original jobs have gone away. This blogpost discusses some of the common pitfalls users tend to fall into when adding the Pushgateway to their monitoring stack.
How many scrape intervals should you have in a Prometheus?
Every now and then someone asks what metric type a increasing timestamp should be. Let's take a look.
