Hello Stuart, thanks for reaching out! I see your point!
My data does contain only numerical data, has a constant rate, and only has one string label. Would you say that it is possible but not optimal or simply not possible to use Prometheus as a general-purpose database? Also, would it be possible to point out the main technical factors rendering Prometheus unsuitable as a general-purpose database? Thanks again for your tremendous help! Best, Abdel On Monday, March 27, 2023 at 2:04:56 PM UTC+2 Stuart Clark wrote: > On 27/03/2023 13:01, Abdelouahab Khelifati wrote: > > Thanks Ben for the answer! > > > > Would you have an example of how such data should look? > > > > > Also, that doesn't really look like time-series data. Prometheus is > > a monitoring system, not a generic database. > > Would that mean that I cannot store such data in standalone > > Prometheus? My understanding is that Prometheus includes a full TSDB > > system. > > Prometheus does contain a TSDB, but it isn't designed as a general > purpose database. Instead it is designed to be used for metrics that are > scraped at a constant rate, only storing numeric values per metric (with > optional string labels). If you are wanting something more generic, you > are better off looking at other databases (both timeseries based and > otherwise). > > -- > Stuart Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to prometheus-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/ea760a87-969b-4865-bcbb-2f7010f14108n%40googlegroups.com.
