Added Monitoring Studio X as a third-party software exposing Promethe…

[iguitton]

@RichiH

Added Monitoring Studio X as a third-party software exposing Prometheus metrics

[RichiH]

Thanks @iguitton !

Taking a quick glance, skm_volume_readrate_bytes_per_second is an anti-pattern; is there any chance to expose the raw values like skm_volume_read_bytes_total so users can use rate() and such in PromQL?

[bertysentry]

@RichiH: Unfortunately, the PATROL Agent does not expose the underlying raw values of its metrics. We tried to reconstruct the raw values from the rates, but it's a resource-intensive task for the agent when there are thousands of metrics to convert.

We're still doing a lot of automatic units conversions (e.g. the FreeSpace metric is originally expressed in MB, and we convert it to bytes, etc.) but this version of the exporter doesn't reconstruct the raw values from the rate metrics. It's still under consideration for a new version, but it will truly depend on the overall performance of the operation.

[iguitton]

@RichiH any update?

[RichiH]

@bertysentry Rebuilding counters from rates is error-prone. If your upstream were to consider exposing raw values, that would be best.

@iguitton thanks for the poke & PR, merging.