Prometheus has supported receiving remote write for several releases. It's
just now promoted to stable.

What this person is asking about is _sending_ remote write, which has been
supported for a very long time.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:21 PM Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 1 February 2022 at 19:45:51 UTC Ram wrote:
>
>>
>> How can I use aws managed prometheus to store the incoming metrics from
>> VMs? I prefer the managed service as it provides relief (per aws doc) from
>> storage/scaling/reliability.
>>
>>
> That depends.  If aws managed prometheus supports "remote write
> <https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/storage/#remote-storage-integrations>",
> which was only made a supported feature a few days ago
> <https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.33.0>, then you
> could use that.  However the documentation warns
> <https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#remote-write-receiver>
> :
>
> *"Prometheus can be configured as a receiver for the Prometheus remote
> write protocol. This is not considered an efficient way of ingesting
> samples. Use it with caution for specific low-volume use cases. It is not
> suitable for replacing the ingestion via scraping and turning Prometheus
> into a push-based metrics collection system."*
>
> In other words, if you want to use prometheus, you should get prometheus
> to do active scraping (making scrapes to say node_exporter running on the
> customer sites).  If you can't do that, then prometheus is probably not a
> good fit for your use case.
>
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