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Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus
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Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

by Joel Bastos, Pedro Araújo
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Metric labels

Labels, or the key/value pairs associated with a certain metric, add dimensionality to the metrics. This is an essential part of what makes Prometheus so good at slicing and dicing time series, as we'll see in Chapter 7, Prometheus Query Language PromQL.

While label values can be full UTF-8, label names have to match a regular expression to be considered valid; for example, "[a-zA-Z0-9_]*".

Their main difference in regard to metric names is that label names don't allow the colon (:).

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