Re: [prometheus-users] Best practice for gathering metrics from client sites

2020-12-14 Thread Ben Kochie
I agree, the best practice here is to have Prometheus as close to the targets as possible. This way any WAN links, VPNs, or proxies are not monitored as a side effect. The remote write feature is designed for this. It can stream data to a central service like Cortex or Thanos. Or a hosted service

Re: [prometheus-users] Best practice for gathering metrics from client sites

2020-12-14 Thread Christian Hoffmann
Hi, On 2020-12-14 11:24, Patrick Macdonald wrote: If we have a Prometheus server on site-A and an arbitrary number of client sites, each with hardware we might want monitor, is there best practice for how to achieve this? I'm assuming pushgateway isn't the correct use-case here?  Is the only

Re: [prometheus-users] Best practice for gathering metrics from client sites

2020-12-14 Thread Stuart Clark
On 2020-12-14 10:24, Patrick Macdonald wrote: This might be more of a general networking question than a Prometheus question, but I thought I'd ask anyway. If we have a Prometheus server on site-A and an arbitrary number of client sites, each with hardware we might want monitor, is there best

[prometheus-users] Best practice for gathering metrics from client sites

2020-12-14 Thread Patrick Macdonald
This might be more of a general networking question than a Prometheus question, but I thought I'd ask anyway. If we have a Prometheus server on site-A and an arbitrary number of client sites, each with hardware we might want monitor, is there best practice for how to achieve this? I'm