May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 36m
English
Recording rule name validation abides by the same regular expression as metric names, and so rules can technically be named the same as any other metric. However, having clear standards when naming recording rules can make it easier to identify them among scraped metrics, know from which metrics they were derived, and understand what aggregations were applied to them.
The Prometheus community has gravitated toward a well-defined naming convention for recording rules. This is based on years of experience running Prometheus at scale. This enables all of the aforementioned advantages when used correctly.
The recommended convention for recording rule naming is composed of three sections, separated by colons, ...
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