Pushgateway

The push gateway lets you push metrics to prometheus using a REST API.

Documentation

official docs

https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway/blob/master/README.md

Routes

push metrics	POST http://${IPADDR}:9091/metrics/job/${YOUR_JOB_NAME}
push metrics	POST http://${IPADDR}:9091/metrics/job/${YOUR_JOB_NAME}/instance/${YOUR_INSTANCE}

Usage

# emit metric without instance
URL="http://${IPADDR}:9091/metrics/job/${YOUR_JOB_NAME}"
echo "some_metric{name="foo"} 1" \
  | curl -X POST --data-binary @- $URL

# emit metric with instance
URL="http://${IPADDR}:9091/metrics/job/${YOUR_JOB_NAME}/instance/${YOUR_INSTANCE}"
cat <<EOF | curl --data-binary @- $URL
metric_abc 1.1
metric_def 2.2
EOF