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Hatem Sahli
Hatem Sahli

Reputation: 33

Store a timestamp with Prometheus metrics

I would like to make a custom metric to store datetime.now in Prometheus metrics, someone know how do it? I tried to do it with gauge but the set predefined function seem to work only with double.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6290

Answers (1)

anemyte
anemyte

Reputation: 20196

Example with python:

import time
import prometheus_client as prom
g = prom.Gauge("name", "description")
g.set(time.time())
prom.write_to_textfile('metrics.txt', prom.REGISTRY)

'metrics.txt' will contain this:

# HELP name description
# TYPE name gauge
name 1.6287478272555726e+09

The value of the metric and time.time() both are epoch time (aka unixtime), just as Prometheus time() function.

Upvotes: 2

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