GaugeMetricFamily Timestamp with Pushgateway

[Murali Krishna Kanagala]

Hello everyone,

I am working on a tool to push historical metrics (1-5 min old) to push gateway.

I have tried using the Gauge form prometheus-client but it does not support setting an older timestamp.

GaugeMetricFamily seems to support it but i am not able to find an example of how to use it with push gateway.

Can someone help me with this?

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Regards,
Murali Krishna Kanagala

[Brian Candler]

This won't work.  Most importantly, Prometheus itself does not allow ingestion of historical metrics in any form.  Furthermore, pushgateway is not intended to store history of a metric, just the most recent value.

You may want to look at another project. For example, VictoriaMetrics has a Prometheus-compatible query API, but also allows "push" and back-filling of historical data.