| ID | product.platform.observability.metrics_pipeline |
|---|---|
| Description | Prometheus + remote write. |
| Key | metrics_pipeline |
| Type | component |
| Team | Platform Engineering |
| Owner | platform@iotgateway.example |
| Status | active |
| Technologies | Prometheus, OpenTelemetry Collector |
| Attributes | retention: 15d, scrape_interval: 15s |
| Tags |
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Guide
Metrics Pipeline
The Metrics Pipeline turns counters, gauges and histograms emitted by every service into queryable time series. It is the backbone of dashboards and alerting — the first place on-call looks when something feels slow.
Pull, then remote-write
Prometheus scrapes targets on a fixed interval and remote-writes the samples to long-term storage. Local scraping keeps alert evaluation fast; remote write keeps history beyond a single Prometheus instance.