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

Move and expand push gateway description.

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title: Pushing data title: Pushing metrics
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# Pushing Data # Pushing metrics
Occasionally you will need to monitor components which cannot be scraped: They 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 might live behind a firewall, or they might be too short-lived to expose data
reliably via the pull model. The 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 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 For more information on using the push gateway, see the project's
project's
[README.md](https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway/blob/master/README.md). [README.md](https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway/blob/master/README.md).
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