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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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Aggregation operations over time

The aggregation operations we discussed earlier are always applied to instant vectors. When we need to perform those aggregations on range vectors, PromQL provides the *_over_time family of functions, which work as described in the Horizontal aggregation section of Chapter 4, Prometheus Metrics Fundamentals. All of them take a range vector and output an instant vector. Following is the description of the operations:

Operation

Description

avg_over_time()

Average value of all samples in the range.

count_over_time()

Count of all samples in the range.

max_over_time()

Maximum value of all samples in the range.

min_over_time()

Minimum value of all samples in the range.

quantile_over_time() ...

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