[bbrazil]

I don't think there's any clear standard. There's many confusions about push vs pull that make the discussions hard to follow, as they often make apples to oranges comparisons. For example the push you're talking about in your comment is events, whereas a fair comparison for Prometheus would be with pushing metrics to Graphite. https://www.robustperception.io/which-kind-of-push-events-or... covers this in more detail.

Taking your example you could push without sending a packet on every event by instead accumulating a counter in memory, and pushing out the current total every N seconds to your preferred push-based monitoring system. You could even do this on top of a Prometheus client library, some of the official ones even as a demo allow pushing to Graphite with just two lines of code: https://github.com/prometheus/client_python#graphite

In my personal opinion, pull is overall better than push but only very slightly. Each have their own problems you'll hit as you scale, but those problems can be engineered around in both cases.

Disclaimer: Prometheus developer