Pushgateway
Push acceptor for ephemeral and batch job metrics
The Prometheus Pushgateway allows ephemeral and batch jobs to expose their metrics to Prometheus. Jobs push metrics to the gateway, which Prometheus then scrapes on its regular schedule.
Key features
- Accepts pushed metrics
- Bridges batch jobs to Prometheus
- Persists metrics to disk
- Tiny footprint
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Solves batch job monitoring
- Simple to run
Trade-offs
- Not for high-frequency metrics
- Can become a single point of failure
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