How can I show all dynamic metrics with grafana?

Question

I'm usign prometheus with grafana.

I send dynamic counters. The counters are ended with a pattern, for example "_graph".

How can I show in a graph all the metrics which ends with "_graph"?

Gorton

Answer 1

In grafana query user this:

{__name__=~".+_graph"}

This will show all the metrics with _graph suffix.

Probably you want to use sth like

rate({__name__=~".+_graph"}[5m]) 

if these are counters.

Jarrodjarrow

That second query will fail, this sounds like a case for labels but barring that robustperception.io/extracting-labels-from-legacy-metric-names. – Efflux

Yup, you're totally right. If there was no requirement to have range specification preceded by metric selector than rate requirement for single name could be appeased by lable_replace. – Jarrodjarrow

Answer 2

After selecting the Explore (compass); Metric Browser has drop down where we can see all the metric names.

Quass