It sounds like you just need a label for the customer (X, Y or Z) and the job (A, B or C). You don't want anything about timestamps in the labels.
On 22 August 2021 16:15:01 BST, David Leonhartsberger <leozi...@gmail.com> wrote: >I have red the documentation about prometheus and the pushgateway but I >still dont understand how I am supposed to "properly" setup the prometheus >stack to get the metrics of my jobs. > >Use case: >We have a couple of jobs which run every day for about 30-90 seconds. >So the following instances are run every day: >- JobA for customerX >- JobA for customerY >- JobB for customerX >- JobC for customerZ > >So for JobA there are 2 "instances" running every day, each instance needs >to collect some data for one of our customers. > >It seems the pushgateway is the way to go here as the jobs are not bound to >any machine (k8s cronjob scheduled on some node in the pool) and the >average runtime is about 1 minute each. > >Two things still confuse me a lot: >1. what "job-name" and "instance-id" (if any) should I use when pushing the >metrics, >2. when and how should I delete the metrics from the pushgateway > >About 1) >For the "job-name" I was going to use "JobA", "JobB" etc >For "instance-id" I was thinking about using "customerX-$timestamp" > >About 2) >I am really clueless here. > >I guess if I dont use an "instance-id" I can delete all metrics by >"job-name" once I dont need the job anymore but this could be years in the >future.. > >If I use an "instance-id", the only way to delete the metrics (without >keeping track of what instance-ids where used) is to delete all metrics via >the admin api. So it seems here I either need to keep state or delete >everything, both doesnt sound right.. > > >I would really appreciate some help here. > >Br David > >-- >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/fb41b909-774c-490f-ae17-f53ba473da73n%40googlegroups.com. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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/4CFCC60E-EA6A-43E9-8F05-422E76240696%40Jahingo.com.
