Insterting fake data in Prometheus

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Rodolphe Ghio

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Sep 17, 2020, 11:37:20 AM9/17/20
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hi everyone !
I was wondering if it's possible to insert 10 000 data on 50 different series, how can I proceed can I make http request to inster them ?

Cheers, Rodolphe.G

Brian Candler

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Sep 17, 2020, 11:51:14 AM9/17/20
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You can't: prometheus does not have any way to back-fill historical data.

Have a look at VictoriaMetrics instead.  It can run as a simple single process like Prometheus, and supports the same prometheus/PromQL query API, but has facilities for bulk loading historical data in various formats.
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