May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 36m
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This type of federation is useful when you need a few select time series from another Prometheus instance locally for recording or alerting rules. Going back to the example scenario where you have a Prometheus instance tasked with scraping Node Exporters and another for applications, this pattern would allow you to federate specific OS-level metrics that could then be used in applications alerts, as shown in the following diagram:

The configuration of cross-service federation looks mostly the same as the previous pattern, but in this case the scraped Prometheus is in the same ...
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