Exemplars: Jump from Grafana to Traces (a dream come true)

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Thomas Güttler

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Sep 25, 2020, 3:05:41 AM9/25/20
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It would be very very great if you could jump from a unusual peak
in a Grafana metric to traces.

Do you know the current state of this. AFAIK it is called "Exemplars"?

Is there something I can do to make this dream come true?

Regards,
  Thomas Güttler

Brian Candler

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Sep 25, 2020, 3:49:37 AM9/25/20
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Since this is a question about Grafana, I think it should be asked on a Grafana mailing list.

Thomas Güttler

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Sep 25, 2020, 9:59:29 AM9/25/20
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Grafana can only display the data it gets from the data source.

First Prometheus needs to export Exemplars (trace-ids). Then Grafana
can make use of them.

Is it already possible to let Prometheus export Exemplars (trace-ids)?

Regards,
  Thomas Güttler

Christian Hoffmann

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Sep 26, 2020, 2:39:42 AM9/26/20
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On 9/25/20 3:59 PM, 'Thomas Güttler' via Prometheus Users wrote:
> Is it already possible to let Prometheus export Exemplars (trace-ids)?

I think there has been some progress meanwhile, but I haven't seen
something externally usable yet.

Issues might give a good clue:

https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/6309
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/search?q=exemplars&type=issues

Kind regards,
Christian


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