Metric names are part of a time series's identity, so shouldn't include information unrelated to identity.
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How do you allow for the keep relabel action halting relabelling for things not kept?
We've previously looked at scraping services from consul and ssh checks. How can we combine those?
The Blackbox exporter can perform ICMP probes. Let's see how.
Have you ever wondered why the buckets in histograms are not just counters of events that fall into each bucket?
When relabelling is suggested for selecting targets with service discovery there's sometimes a misunderstanding that relabelling can only change labels. That's not the case.
Prometheus is architected for reliability of alerting, how do you set it up?
When metrics come from another system they often don't have labels. metric_relabel_configs offers one way around that.
You may have noticed that most PromQL functions and operators remove the metric name in their result. Let's look at why.
We've looked at the full Life of a Label. Let's focus on one of the most common confusions around relabelling.
