kshcherban / prometheus-metric-pusher

Push metrics directly to Prometheus over remote write protocol

Prometheus Metric Pusher

Simple program that pushes metrics directly to Prometheus over remote write protocol.

Build

You need to have Go installed locally.

git clone https://github.com/kshcherban/prometheus-metric-pusher
cd prometheus-metric-pusher
go build

Usage

Start Prometheus server with special flag:

docker run --rm -ti -p 9090:9090 quay.io/prometheus/prometheus \
  --web.enable-remote-write-receiver --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

Run prometheus-metric-pusher:

./prometheus-metric-pusher -metric mymetric -value 3 -label instance=my-host1 -label foo=bar

To see all available CLI options run with -h option.

In Prometheus you will see you metric as follow: