The Prometheus Pushgateway module

This module installs Prometheus Pushgateway into the cluster. It gets metrics from the app and pushes them to Prometheus.

Additional information:

• When to use Prometheus Pushgateway.
• How to collect metrics using Prometheus Pushgateway.

Example of using PushGateway

PushGateway address: http://first.kube-prometheus-pushgateway:9091.

Pushing a metric using curl

# echo "test_metric 3.14" | curl --data-binary @- http://first.kube-prometheus-pushgateway:9091/metrics/job/app

The metrics will be available in Prometheus in 30 seconds (after the data are scraped):

test_metric{instance="10.244.1.155:9091",job="app",pushgateway="first"} 3.14

Caution! The job value must be unique in Prometheus to preserve the consistency of the existing graphs and alerts. Use the following query to get a list of all existing jobs: count({__name__=~".+"}) by (job).

Deleting all metrics of a group {instance="10.244.1.155:9091",job="app"} using curl

# curl -X DELETE http://first.kube-prometheus-pushgateway:9091/metrics/job/app/instance/10.244.1.155:9091

Since PushGateway stores the scraped metrics in memory, all metrics will be lost when the Pod is restarted.