The former i.e. logs produced as a snapshot, into a timestamped file, when the process receives SIGINT.
On Tuesday, 9 March 2021 at 11:10:25 UTC Stuart Clark wrote: > On 2021-03-09 09:28, Andrew Fielden wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion, mtail looks useful. However the log files > > are only produced when the system being monitored is sent a SIGINT > > signal. I wonder if mtail can handle that? > > > > Is it that the logs are only produced when you send SIGINT for a > "current snapshot" of the status of the application, or is it that logs > are emitted for a period of time? > > If the second, Prometheus doesn't have the ability to ingest chunks of > data over periods of time (just the "current" data). There is some > experimental work ongoing for one-time backfilling of data, but that > equally probably wouldn't be suitable for regular ingestion. > > -- > Stuart Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/499621a8-1fc6-4834-872e-a7cd95b8888bn%40googlegroups.com.
