Prometheus remote write backend
Prerequisites#
To use the prometheus remote write API with storage providers protobuf and snappy libraries should be installed first. Next, Netdata should be re-installed from the source. The installer will detect that the required libraries and utilities are now available.
Configuration#
An additional option in the backend configuration section is available for the remote write backend:
The default value is /receive. remote write URL path is used to set an endpoint path for the remote write protocol.
For example, if your endpoint is http://example.domain:example_port/storage/read you should set
buffered and lost dimensions in the Netdata Backend Data Size operation monitoring chart estimate uncompressed
buffer size on failures.
Notes#
The remote write backend does not support buffer on failures