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Prometheus metrics exposition format supports user-defined timestamps [1]. There is an alternative time series database - VictoriaMetrics - which supports data

Prometheus metrics exposition format supports user-defined timestamps [1]. There is an alternative time series database - VictoriaMetrics - which supports data ingestion in Influx line protocol, while providing Prometheus querying API with PromQL [2]. [1] https://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus#NewMetricWithTimestamp https://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/promet... [2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/ https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/

dekhn 7y ago
Conceptually, the docs I've read for prometheus basically say doing this is "wrong" and even the docs you pointed me at say it's a rare case. My use cases are completely the opposite, so I won't be adopting a system which actively tells me I'm doing it wrong.