Save metrics with future timestamp

[Abhilash T C]

How can we save metrics to Prometheus with future time stamp? Wanted to save prediction data from a third party system.

Now Prometheus accepts timestamp only up to now+10. 

 

[Brian Candler]

Prometheus is only designed for scraping "now" data - not for historical backfilling, nor for ingesting future values.

You could store the prediction in one metric, together with a separate metric containing the timestamp the prediction relates to, as a Unix time value (seconds since 1 Jan 1970).

Otherwise, you could look at alternatives like VictoriaMetrics or InfluxDB, which allow infilling of data at arbitrary timestamps.

[Abhilash T C]

Thank you for the swift reply.