prometheus / prometheus/graphite_exporter
Add timestamp to exported metrics
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Description
The graphite exporter keeps the metrics for up to 5 minutes. It even records the time in Timestamp. But it doesn't export the time it received the metrics to Prometheus.
I would like the graphite_exporter to export the time when it received a metrics like the push gateway.
This would help a setup where Prometheus scrapes the graphite_exporter every 10 seconds, but new data is pushed to graphite in a different timing (i.e. 30 or 60 seconds).
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Research direction
Review the graphite exporter’s retained-metrics handling and its existing Timestamp field, then compare the requested behavior with Pushgateway semantics. Done means Prometheus output includes the time the exporter received each metric while preserving the current retention behavior; add coverage for scrapes occurring between pushes.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100