Promethus metrics caluclated in MB or Bytes or KB
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Bharathwaj Shankar
Nov 27, 2020, 1:18:01 AM11/27/20
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I can see various metrics in promethus,basically in which unit it is calculated?
Christian Hoffmann
Nov 27, 2020, 2:48:04 AM11/27/20
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Hi,
On 11/27/20 7:18 AM, Bharathwaj Shankar wrote:
> I can see various metrics in promethus,basically in which unit it is
> calculated?
As per the official documentations, all values should be in base units.
That would be Bytes:
https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/#base-units
This should usually be documented using the _bytes suffix in the metric
names.
However, technically Prometheus does not have a concept of units.
Prometheus just stores the numbers. It's up to the exporters to provide
sane values and up to the visualizations (e.g. Grafana dashboards) and
rules to make sense of it.
Kind regards,
Christian
On 11/27/20 7:18 AM, Bharathwaj Shankar wrote:
> I can see various metrics in promethus,basically in which unit it is
> calculated?
That would be Bytes:
https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/#base-units
This should usually be documented using the _bytes suffix in the metric
names.
However, technically Prometheus does not have a concept of units.
Prometheus just stores the numbers. It's up to the exporters to provide
sane values and up to the visualizations (e.g. Grafana dashboards) and
rules to make sense of it.
Kind regards,
Christian
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