[thinkmassive]

The most basic setup, and the one typically used until you need something more advanced, is using Prometheus for scraping and as the TSDB backend. If you ever decide to revisit prometheus, you’ll likely have better luck starting with this approach, rather than implementing your own scraping or involving TimescaleDB at all (at least until you have a working monitoring stack).

There used to be a connector called Promscale that was for sending metrics data from Prometheus to Timescale (using Prometheus’ remote_write) but it was deprecated earlier this year.

[thinkmassive]

Also important to add: using prometheus as the tsdb is good for short term use (on the order of days to months). For longer retention you could offload it elsewhere, like another Prometheus-based backend or something else SQL-based, etc