Commit 3a7076c9 authored by Julius Volz's avatar Julius Volz

Document the `__tmp` label prefix.

Fixes https://github.com/prometheus/docs/issues/170
parent 6cac19e0
......@@ -359,6 +359,10 @@ the target and vary between mechanisms.
Labels starting with `__` will be removed from the label set after relabeling is completed.
If a relabeling step needs to store a label value only temporarily (as the
input to a subsequent relabeling step), use the `__tmp` label name prefix. This
prefix is guaranteed to never be used by Prometheus itself.
```
# The source labels select values from existing labels. Their content is concatenated
# using the configured separator and matched against the configured regular expression
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