Migrating data from InfluxDB to Prometheus?

[dcadwa...@gmail.com]

We're considering moving from InfluxDB to Prometheus.  Are there any methods to migrate data from InfluxDB to Prometheus, or would we need to start fresh?

Thanks!

[Brian Brazil]

On 19 May 2017 at 17:27, <dcadwa...@gmail.com> wrote:

We're considering moving from InfluxDB to Prometheus.  Are there any methods to migrate data from InfluxDB to Prometheus, or would we need to start fresh?

There's no real way to do this currently, it's easiest to start fresh. It's likely the structure of all your metrics will change anyway.

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Brian Brazil

www.robustperception.io

[srra...@gmail.com]

We are also considering that, can we write instrumentation to read from Influxdb and write to push gateway onto prometheus? Will be able to save the timestamps?

Thanks!

[Vishnu B]

Did you find a solution for this?

Regards,

Vishnu

[Brian Candler]

The answer is the same: you cannot migrate or backfill data into prometheus.  It's a feature being considered for the future:

https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/roadmap/#backfill-time-series

You can back-fill into VictoriaMetrics which has a prometheus-compatible API, and can also act as a remote-write endpoint for prometheus.  Hence you can use prometheus for the short-term buffering and alerting, and VM for the long-term storage and querying.

Other options like Thanos or Cortex might support back-fill, but I haven't used these.

[Vishnu B]

Thanks Brian