Commit 821c5560 authored by Julius Volz's avatar Julius Volz

Move and expand push gateway description.

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title: Pushing data
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title: Pushing metrics
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# Pushing Data
# Pushing metrics
Occasionally you will need to monitor components which cannot be scraped: They
might be behind a firewall, or they might be too short-lived to expose data
Occasionally you will need to monitor components which cannot be scraped. They
might live behind a firewall, or they might be too short-lived to expose data
reliably via the pull model. The
[push gateway](https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway) allows you to push
[Prometheus push gateway](https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway) allows you to push
time series from these components to an intermediary job which Prometheus can
scrape.
scrape. Combined with Prometheus's simple text-based exposition format, this
makes it easy to instrument even shell scripts without a client library.
For more information on installing and using the push gateway, see the
project's
For more information on using the push gateway, see the project's
[README.md](https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway/blob/master/README.md).
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