Whenever prometheus scrape an exporter, it automatically creates any timeseries which don't exist (i.e. unique combination of metric name + labels)
Therefore if your exporter is continuing to expose those timeseries - which you can easily check with a curl scrape - they will be recreated. Things like gauges and counters set in a prometheus client library will normally persist unless you delete them. Otherwise: (a) they wouldn't work when being scraped by multiple prometheus servers, and (b) they would not be present when the next scrape comes along - which would result in the timeseries going "stale". Remember that the prometheus client library does not know how often it's going to get scraped, and by whom. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/3be3f036-ca09-483e-a82b-58a80d6824ca%40googlegroups.com.
