Also this: https://prometheus.io/blog/2019/10/10/remote-read-meets-streaming/
Actually Brian you have a very nice point here. It's not well documented - it's definitely easy to miss this! There is even a recent discussion about it thanks to Shay: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/7192 Help wanted to improve this! 🤗 Kind Regards, Bartek On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 11:23, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote: > I apologise for spreading misinformation! > > In my defence, the documentation may be incomplete. I can't find any > mention of prometheus providing (rather than consuming) a remote_read > endpoint at: > https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/ [this is not > the whole API though; e.g. doesn't mention /federate] > https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/storage/ > > https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage > > But after grepping the tree, I found it mentioned in passing here: > https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/migration/ > > *"The data format in Prometheus 2.0 has completely changed and is not > backwards compatible with 1.8. To retain access to your historic monitoring > data we recommend you run a non-scraping Prometheus instance running at > least version 1.8.1 in parallel with your Prometheus 2.0 instance, and have > the new server read existing data from the old one via the remote read > protocol."* > > So it looks like remote_read server implementation has been around for a > very long time, and I never came across it before. Thanks for putting me > straight. > > -- > 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 prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/ce265d58-8784-47a2-909e-c9477a4876ea%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/ce265d58-8784-47a2-909e-c9477a4876ea%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAMssQwa4CsBgW2SUqN6-YVt2PDJtKbP2CPzO3babvSmiBKN%2BiQ%40mail.gmail.com.
