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by Jedd 2143 days ago
Yeah, I think we've looked at that. It provides push for the last mile, and I suppose you could wrangle some auto-discovery using that tooling, but you're still doing pull from Prometheus to that/those server(s).

We're still a bit stuck trying to replicate all the make-life-easy functionality we get with Zabbix sitting on a honking great PostgreSQL / Timescale database, with a bunch of proxies, and automated agent installs that auto-register.

There's places that doesn't work well (k8s, f.e.) but for conventional fleet metrics it's difficult to abandon.

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Yeah true, we find it easy for us because we're using K8s annotations for Prometheus scrape target discovery, so the gateway is just another target, and we're not running too many ephemeral jobs that we need more than one gateway.