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Prometheus - Data Collection

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• Prometheus - Data Collection
  • Data Collection

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Data Collection

• Scaping method

  • Common method used by Prometheus
  • Applications install exporter, from which Prometheus pulls the metrics.

• Push method

  • Prometheus uses push gateway to collect metrics from the application.
  • Limitation of push method
    • requires application source code to implement the push method
    • unscalable

• push gateway

  • a component of Prometheus
  • acts as temporary storage, to which application send the metric and from which Prometheus can scrape metric.
  • allows applications to use push method.
  • Prometheus is always a pull time series database.

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