I'm looking at adopting Prometheus for our system, one thing we want to monitor are incoming alarms (and alarm clearances).
Metrics of use would be: - Total number of active alarms - Rate of alarms being raised - Rate of alarms being cleared The second one is confusing me a bit. Prometheus will poll at repeated intervals, and we might change that interval. I can report the *total* number of alarm-raises/alarm-clearances since the system started using Counter metrics but what I am interested in is the rate of change not the absolute value. I just want to check: 1. Is rate of change a standard visualization for a metric e.g. a graph of alarms-raised-per minute/hour/day? 2. Our system runs for months at a time, I assume the maximum value for a Counter is so astronomically high this is a non issue? 3. Would it make sense to use alarms raised/cleared as labels on the same time-series or should they be two totally separate time-series? Is this the right way to monitor such a metric? Thanks. -- 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/CAGJRanhS1JjQxTPG12ArkZj9_0%2Bxr24puJ300%3DXJkGcJeFANWg%40mail.gmail.com.
