Proposal: pushing metrics directly to Prometheus

[rollcat]

I think push vs pull has been mentioned a long time ago, on numerous occasions, and in numerous sources already, but after briefly reviewing open (and closed) issues I haven't found anything of a decisive "yes" / "no" / "maybe" / "send a patch".

From what I gathered, pushgateway, due to its design, is only ever recommended for certain, specialized use cases.

The high-level proposal is to expose an endpoint, where clients could push metrics directly, ideally via HTTP POST. Basically integrate (parts of) pushgateway into "core" Prometheus, and make push-based metric collection a first-class citizen.

Clients that only expose metrics via the scrape/GET endpoint, could be bridged by a local scraper that later pushes the metrics via POST.

[krasi-georgiev]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-developers
Proposals are best discussed in the google group as more people are subscribed there and will be a better place for such discussion.

it might be worth doing some search as I suspect this topic has already been discussed.
Don't forget to describe your use case and why it can't be solved with the pull model or via the push gateway.

[brian-brazil]

This has been discussed extensively, and this is an explicit non-goal of the project.

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