We favour pull, but we don't force it. The collectd exporter is an integration with a push-based system for example. My full thoughts are up at http://www.boxe

We favour pull, but we don't force it. The collectd exporter is an integration with a push-based system for example. My full thoughts are up at http://www.boxever.com/push-vs-pull-for-monitoring http://www.boxever.com/push-vs-pull-for-monitoring The short version is that I consider pull slightly better, but not majorly so. Push is more difficult to work with as you scale up, but it is doable.