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User defined labels for mtail specific metrics #905

Closed Nilesh-Shastri closed 3 months ago

Nilesh-Shastri commented 3 months ago

I am looking for adding user defined labels to mtail specific metrics.

For example, the user must be able to add a custom label (eg, server="srv1") to any mtail specific metric (eg, mtail_log_lines_total).

I understand that this is achievable by updating scrape config on Prometheus. I'm still interested to have that done using mtail.

Thanks in advance!

jaqx0r commented 3 months ago

You gave the answer already, it's part of the scrape config in Prometheus.

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I am looking for adding user defined labels to mtail specific metrics.

For example, user must be able to add custom label (eg, server="srv1") to any mtail specific metrcu (eg, mtail_log_lines_total).

I understand that this is achievable by updating scrape config on Prometheus. Still interested to have that done using mtail.

Thanks in advance!

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Nilesh-Shastri commented 3 months ago

Thanks for your response, Jamie!

Is it OK to presume that there is no possibility of achieving that using mtail, and there are no plans to implement any such feature?

jaqx0r commented 3 months ago

I have no plans to implement this.

There is of course no technical barrier to adding it, but I don't want to maintain more code when less will do, and when this is possible with other tools in the ecosystem.