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Allow use of instance and job labels #277

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@Sinjo Sinjo commented Feb 14, 2023

These labels were previously reserved under all circumstances, but Prometheus server handles them just fine in the metric data it scrapes.

The reason we'd reserved them is that Prometheus automatically generates values for them when it scrapes a target, and we didn't want to cause a collision. It turns out Prometheus handles that collision just fine.

By default, Prometheus server will prepend exported_ to them if they're present in the scraped data (i.e. exported_instance and exported_job). Users can set honor_labels in their Prometheus server config if they prefer the labels from the scraped metric data to take precedence over the labels generated by the server.

Signed-off-by: Chris Sinjakli chris@sinjakli.co.uk


Fixes #275

@Sinjo Sinjo requested a review from dmagliola February 14, 2023 16:43
These labels were previously reserved under all circumstances, but
Prometheus server handles them just fine in the metric data it scrapes.

The reason we'd reserved them is that Prometheus automatically generates
values for them when it scrapes a target, and we didn't want to cause a
collision. It turns out Prometheus handles that collision just fine.

By default, Prometheus server will prepend `exported_` to them if
they're present in the scraped data (i.e. `exported_instance` and
`exported_job`). Users can set `honor_labels` in their Prometheus server
config if they prefer the labels from the scraped metric data to take
precedence over the labels generated by the server.

Signed-off-by: Chris Sinjakli <chris@sinjakli.co.uk>
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Nice! Thank you!

@Sinjo Sinjo merged commit db756a1 into main Feb 15, 2023
@Sinjo Sinjo deleted the sinjo-loosen-reserved-labels branch February 15, 2023 11:02
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pushing metrics with instance grouping_key would result: instance is reserved
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