Prometheus remote storage adapter for PostgreSQL

With this remote storage adapter, Prometheus can use PostgreSQL as a long-term store for time-series metrics.

Related packages to install:

• pg_prometheus extension for PostgreSQL (required)
• TimescaleDB (optional for better performance and scalability)

Docker instructions

A docker image for the prometheus-postgreSQL storage adapter is available on Docker Hub at timescale/prometheus-postgresql-adapter.

The easiest way to use this image is in conjunction with the pg_prometheus docker image provided by Timescale. This image packages PostgreSQL, pg_prometheus, and TimescaleDB together in one docker image.

To run this image use:

docker run --name pg_prometheus -d -p 5432:5432 timescale/pg_prometheus:master postgres \
      -csynchronous_commit=off

Then, start the prometheus-postgreSQL storage adapter using:

 docker run --name prometheus_postgresql_adapter --link pg_prometheus -d -p 9201:9201 \
 timescale/prometheus-postgresql-adapter:master \
 -pg.host=pg_prometheus \
 -pg.prometheus-log-samples

Finally, you can start Prometheus with:

docker run -p 9090:9090 --link prometheus_postgresql_adapter -v /path/to/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
       prom/prometheus

(a sample prometheus.yml file can be found in sample-docker-prometheus.yml in this repository).

Configuring Prometheus to use this remote storage adapter

You must tell prometheus to use this remote storage adapter by adding the following lines to prometheus.yml:

remote_write:
  - url: "http://<adapter-address>:9201/write"
remote_read:
  - url: "http://<adapter-address>:9201/read"

Building

Before building, make sure the following prerequisites are installed:

• Dep for dependency management.
• Go

Then build as follows:

# Install dependencies (only required once)
dep ensure

# Build binary
make

Building new Docker images

# Build Docker image
make docker-image

# Push to Docker registry (requires permission)
make docker-push ORGANIZATION=myorg 

Contributing

We welcome contributions to this adaptor, which like TimescaleDB is released under the Apache2 Open Source License. The same Contributors Agreement applies; please sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) if you're a new contributor.