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What is the best GitHub issue to follow to find out when Prometheus supports events older than the configurable 5 minute limit?

I'm blocked because a network partition can mean no stats.

Edit: Maybe https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/398 ? Also, limit is configurable.

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That would be the correct issue about the staleness limit, yes. Note that Prometheus does not track individual events, but only numerical time series and their current and historical values. What's the exact use case you're stuck on? I guess you are using the pushgateway with client-side timestamps?

Yes, I have to collect metrics in a very restricted and separated production environment then ship them over to a completely separate system for reporting. My impression is that Prometheus just isn't the right fit.

That depends - but yeah, those situations can be tricky sometimes.

If you are pushing metric states regularly though (more than every 5m) or don't set client-side timestamps, that usually works though. But maybe you have an even more special use case there regarding those metrics and the staleness?

Basically I don't want to hassle with transferring stats until it's worth it (collecting enough before making the transfer), rather than being forced into streaming them due to this contstraint.

Thanks for your responses.

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