For now, I have just fixed the README.md. ;)


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:57 AM, juliusv <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In README.md:
>
> > +
> > +* Delete all metrics of a job:
> > +
> > +        curl -X DELETE http://pushgateway.example.org:8080/metrics/jobs/some_job
> > +
> > +### About timestamps
> > +
> > +If you push metrics at time *t<sub>1</sub>*, you might be tempted to
> > +believe that Prometheus will scrape them with that same timestamp
> > +*t<sub>1</sub>*. Instead, what Prometheus attaches as a timestamp is
> > +the time when it scrapes the push gateway. Why so?
> > +
> > +In the world view of Prometheus, a metric can be scraped at any
> > +time. A metric that cannot be scraped has basically ceased to
> > +exist. Prometheus is somewhat tolerant, but if it cannot get any
> > +samples for a metric in 15min, it will behave as if that metric does
>
> Btw., this is currently 5 minutes, not 15 minutes (dito below). I wonder
> whether we should leave it hardcoded forever though.
>
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