Finding metrics using description

Filip Grządkowski

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Mar 30, 2020, 12:33:49 PM3/30/20

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Hey,

We're using a standard Prometheus + Alertmanager setup. We have a number of metrics across multiple processes, containers and instances. I'd like to be able to search all exported metrics not only by name (which is possible in prometheus graph UI), but also show their description for users to make sure they know what they are using or to make it easier to search for an interesting metric. Is there some tool that would do that for me?

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Weston Greene

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Mar 30, 2020, 3:50:10 PM3/30/20

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What do you mean "description"? Is "description" a label you have on the metric? If so:

`{the_metrics_description=~".*search term.*"}`

Filip Grządkowski

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Apr 8, 2020, 8:56:06 AM4/8/20

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Anyone?

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