How to store my own key-value pairs in Prometheus?

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Aviral Srivastava

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Jun 13, 2020, 8:05:51 PM6/13/20
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Prometheus stores time-series data by default. In this default model, the x-axis is time and the y-axis is the value.

I want x-axis to be a number(1,2,3,....) and y-axis to be of some value(1000, 2000, 3000, ....). 

How do I store that in Prometheus?

Stuart Clark

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Jun 14, 2020, 3:49:20 AM6/14/20
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Prometheus isn't a general purpose database system. Datapoints are
scraped using the Prometheus metrics format from the targets you
specify, and then are stored in the TSDB against that scrape time.

It sounds like you would want a standard database like MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Ajay Kulkarni

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Jun 16, 2020, 8:01:24 PM6/16/20
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You may want to look at TimescaleDB, which is a general-purpose time-series database built on top of PostgreSQL.

It is also possible to use TimescaleDB as long-term storage for Prometheus metrics, as is explained in this design document:



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