[WIP][Prometheus] PrometheusClient use Labels API for "describe" resultset #2435
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Description
Modify PrometheusClient to use Prometheus Labels API for PPL "describe" results, instead of Prometheus "metadata" API.
Prometheus series will only produce a "metadata" record if the Prometheus server actively scrapes the configured metrics source server.
In the case of backfilling via
promtool tsdb create-blocks-from
, this scraping event does not occur. In the case of development or test environment, this scraping event may never occur.All series are exposed by the Prometheus Labels API, via endpoint
/api/v1/label/__name__/values
. Prometheus naming conventions can be used to determine the "unit" and "type" of each series. This is the expected internal behaviour of the Prometheus service itself.Use case :
Script-generated backfill files are created, with content similar to :
Upon ingestion of this backfill via the cli
promtool tsdb create-blocks-from /tmp/test_usage_backfill.txt
, the series is visible in the Promethus Web UI (http://localhost:9090) via the "metrics browser".Yet the series is not visible in the Metadata API (
/api/v1/metdata
).This result is irrespective of any configuration in
prometheus.yml
for scraping, relabeling, or other configuration feautres.Issues Resolved
[List any issues this PR will resolve]
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