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prometheus.remote_write

prometheus.remote_write collects metrics sent from other components into a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) and forwards them over the network to a series of user-supplied endpoints. Metrics are sent over the network using the Prometheus Remote Write protocol.

Multiple prometheus.remote_write components can be specified by giving them different labels.

Usage

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prometheus.remote_write "LABEL" {
  endpoint {
    url = REMOTE_WRITE_URL

    ...
  }

  ...
}

Arguments

The following arguments are supported:

Blocks

The following blocks are supported inside the definition of prometheus.remote_write:

The > symbol indicates deeper levels of nesting. For example, endpoint > http_client_config refers to an http_client_config block defined inside an endpoint block.

endpoint block

The endpoint block describes a single location to send metrics to. Multiple endpoint blocks can be provided to send metrics to multiple locations.

The following arguments are supported:

When multiple endpoint blocks are provided, metrics are concurrently sent to all configured locations. Each endpoint has a queue which is used to read metrics from the WAL and queue them for sending. The queue_config block can be used to customize the behavior of the queue.

Endpoints can be named for easier identification in debug metrics using the name argument. If the name argument isn’t provided, a name is generated based on a hash of the endpoint settings.

When send_native_histograms is true, native Prometheus histogram samples sent to prometheus.remote_write are forwarded to the configured endpoint. If the endpoint doesn’t support receiving native histogram samples, pushing metrics fails.

http_client_config block

The http_client_config configures settings used to connect to the remote_write server.

bearer_token, bearer_token_file, basic_auth, authorization, and oauth2 are mutually exclusive and only one can be provided inside of a http_client_config block.

basic_auth block

password and password_file are mututally exclusive and only one can be provided inside of a basic_auth block.

authorization block

credential and credentials_file are mutually exclusive and only one can be provided inside of an authorization block.

oauth2 block

client_secret and client_secret_file are mututally exclusive and only one can be provided inside of an oauth2 block.

The oauth2 block may also contain its own separate tls_config sub-block.

tls_config block

When min_version is not provided, the minimum acceptable TLS version is inherited from Go’s default minimum version, TLS 1.2. If min_version is provided, it must be set to one of the following strings:

• "TLS10" (TLS 1.0)
• "TLS11" (TLS 1.1)
• "TLS12" (TLS 1.2)
• "TLS13" (TLS 1.3)

queue_config block

Each queue then manages a number of concurrent shards which is responsible for sending a fraction of data to their respective endpoints. The number of shards is automatically raised if samples are not being sent to the endpoint quickly enough. The range of permitted shards can be configured with the min_shards and max_shards arguments.

Each shard has a buffer of samples it will keep in memory, controlled with the capacity argument. New metrics aren’t read from the WAL unless there is at least one shard that is not at maximum capcity.

The buffer of a shard is flushed and sent to the endpoint either after the shard reaches the number of samples specified by max_samples_per_send or the duration specified by batch_send_deadline has elapsed since the last flush for that shard.

Shards retry requests which fail due to a recoverable error. An error is recoverable if the server responds with an HTTP 5xx status code. The delay between retries can be customized with the min_backoff and max_backoff arguments.

The retry_on_http_429 argument specifies whether HTTP 429 status code responses should be treated as recoverable errors; other HTTP 4xx status code responses are never considered recoverable errors. When retry_on_http_429 is enabled, Retry-After response headers from the servers are honored.

metadata_config block

wal block

The wal block customizes the Write-Ahead Log (WAL) used to temporarily store metrics before they are sent to the configured set of endpoints.

The WAL serves two primary purposes:

• Buffer unsent metrics in case of intermittent network issues.
• Populate in-memory cache after a process restart.

The WAL is located inside a component-specific directory relative to the storage path Grafana Agent is configured to use. See the agent run documentation for how to change the storage path.

The truncate_frequency argument configures how often to clean up the WAL. Every time the truncate_frequency period elapses, the lower two-thirds of data is removed from the WAL and is no available for sending.

When a WAL clean-up starts, the lowest successfully sent timestamp is used to determine how much data is safe to remove from the WAL. The min_keepalive_time and max_keepalive_time control the permitted age range of data in the WAL; samples aren’t removed until they are at least as old as min_keepalive_time, and samples are forcibly removed if they are older than max_keepalive_time.

Exported fields

The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components:

Component health

prometheus.remote_write is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid configuration. In those cases, exported fields are kept at their last healthy values.

Debug information

prometheus.remote_write does not expose any component-specific debug information.

Debug metrics

• agent_wal_storage_active_series (gauge): Current number of active series being tracked by the WAL.
• agent_wal_storage_deleted_series (gauge): Current number of series marked for deletion from memory.
• agent_wal_storage_created_series_total (counter): Total number of created series appended to the WAL.
• agent_wal_storage_removed_series_total (counter): Total number of series removed from the WAL.
• agent_wal_samples_appended_total (counter): Total number of samples appended to the WAL.
• agent_wal_exemplars_appended_total (counter): Total number of exemplars appended to the WAL.
• prometheus_remote_storage_samples_total (counter): Total number of samples sent to remote storage.
• prometheus_remote_storage_exemplars_total (counter): Total number of exemplars sent to remote storage.
• prometheus_remote_storage_metadata_total (counter): Total number of metadata entries sent to remote storage.
• prometheus_remote_storage_samples_failed_total (counter): Total number of samples that failed to send to remote storage due to non-recoverable errors.
• prometheus_remote_storage_exemplars_failed_total (counter): Total number of exemplars that failed to send to remote storage due to non-recoverable errors.
• prometheus_remote_storage_metadata_failed_total (counter): Total number of metadata entries that failed to send to remote storage due to non-recoverable errors.
• prometheus_remote_storage_samples_retries_total (counter): Total number of samples that failed to send to remote storage but were retried due to recoverable errors.
• prometheus_remote_storage_exemplars_retried_total (counter): Total number of exemplars that failed to send to remote storage but were retried due to recoverable errors.
• prometheus_remote_storage_metadata_retried_total (counter): Total number of metadata entries that failed to send to remote storage but were retried due to recoverable errors.
• prometheus_remote_storage_samples_dropped_total (counter): Total number of samples which were dropped after being read from the WAL before being sent to remote_write because of an unknown reference ID.
• prometheus_remote_storage_exemplars_dropped_total (counter): Total number of exemplars which were dropped after being read from the WAL before being sent to remote_write because of an unknown reference ID.
• prometheus_remote_storage_enqueue_retries_total (counter): Total number of times enqueue has failed because a shard’s queue was full.
• prometheus_remote_storage_sent_batch_duration_seconds (histogram): Duration of send calls to remote storage.
• prometheus_remote_storage_queue_highest_sent_timestamp_seconds (gauge): Unix timestamp of the latest WAL sample successfully sent by a queue.
• prometheus_remote_storage_samples_pending (gauge): The number of samples pending in shards to be sent to remote storage.
• prometheus_remote_storage_exemplars_pending (gauge): The number of exemplars pending in shards to be sent to remote storage.
• prometheus_remote_storage_shard_capacity (gauge): The capacity of shards within a given queue.
• prometheus_remote_storage_shards (gauge): The number of shards used for concurrent delivery of metrics to an endpoint.
• prometheus_remote_storage_shards_min (gauge): The minimum number of shards a queue is allowed to run.
• prometheus_remote_storage_shards_max (gauge): The maximum number of a shards a queue is allowed to run.
• prometheus_remote_storage_shards_desired (gauge): The number of shards a queue wants to run to be able to keep up with the amount of incoming metrics.
• prometheus_remote_storage_bytes_total (counter): Total number of bytes of data sent by queues after compression.
• prometheus_remote_storage_metadata_bytes_total (counter): Total number of bytes of metadata sent by queues after compression.
• prometheus_remote_storage_max_samples_per_send (gauge): The maximum number of samples each shard is allowed to send in a single request.
• prometheus_remote_storage_samples_in_total (counter): Samples read into remote storage.
• prometheus_remote_storage_exemplars_in_total (counter): Exemplars read into remote storage.

Example

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prometheus.remote_write "staging" {
  // Send metrics to a locally running Mimir.
  endpoint {
    url = "http://mimir:9009/api/v1/push"

    http_client_config {
      basic_auth {
        username = "example-user"
        password = "example-password"
      }
    }
  }
}

// Configure a prometheus.scrape component to send metrics to
// prometheus.remote_write component.
prometheus.scrape "demo" {
  targets = [
    // Collect metrics from Grafana Agent's default HTTP listen address.
    {"__address__" = "127.0.0.1:12345"},
  ]
  forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.staging.receiver]
}