Commit a2345883 authored by Brian Brazil's avatar Brian Brazil

Add staleness and clients/exporters

parent cbf2bec3
......@@ -72,6 +72,18 @@ other long-term storage backends.
GitHub issue: [#10](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/10)
**Improved staleness handling**
Currently Prometheus omits time series from query results if the timestamp for
which the query is executed is more than 5 minutes away from the nearest
sample. This means that time series will grow "stale" in instant queries after
not receiving samples for 5 minutes. This currently prevents usage of
client-side timestamps from the Pushgateway or CloudWatch Exporter, which might
indicate a time more than 5 minutes in the past. We plan on only considering a
time series stale if it was not present in the most recent scrape.
GitHub issue: [#398](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/398)
**Server-side metric metadata support**
At this time, metric types and other metadata are only used in the client
......@@ -80,3 +92,11 @@ Prometheus server. We plan on making use of this metadata in the future. For
example, we could suggest automatic rates over counters, warn users if they
take the rate of a gauge, or display metric documentation strings. The details
of this are still to be determined.
**More client libraries and exporters**
Prometheus has a range of client libraries and exporters. There are always
more languages that could be supported, or systems that it would be useful to
export metrics from such as Python or Collectd. We will add more as we need
them. We are also happy to accept pull requests and advise on how best to
integrate with Prometheus.
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