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Introduction Pushing Metrics

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  • https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway
  • Diagram
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  • Sometimes metrics cannot be scraped
    • Example:
      • batch jobs, servers are not reachable due to NAT, firewall
  • Pushgateway is used as an intermediary service which allows you to push metrics.
  • Pitfalls
    • Most of the times this is a single instance so this results in a SPOF
    • Prometheus's automatic instance health monitoring is not possible
    • The Pushgateway never forgets the metrics unless they are deleted via the api
      • Example:
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