Re: BackupPC and Prometheus.

Hi there,

On Fri, 24 Oct 2025, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 1:42?PM G.W. Haywood wrote:
>
>> It doesn't look like there will be a lot of work involved, but there
>> seem to be conflicts in the suggestions which may need to be resolved.
>> ...
> ...
> Prometheus records data in a time series database ...
> ...
> BackupPC_Admin?action=metrics?format=prometheus implements an exporter 
> ...
> "fix this problem by fixing the value" is a better approach than
> "fix this problem by removing the value."  ...

That was very helpful, thank you.  I've now pushed some changes, and
will await developments.  AFAICT the people who are using this stuff
know what they need to do, and this is more about avoiding patches in
packaged distributions than about fixing things in the "experimental"
metrics feature.

The Github Web interface continues to cause multiple problems for me.
If anyone has comments or requests about metrics or their presentation
via JSON, Prometheus or RSS please reply in this thread rather than in
any of the Github issues/PRs.

It seems to me that it might be useful to extend the discussion to the
more general topic of APIs (see Github issue #365), perhaps including
the use of BackupPC_serverMesg and BackupPC_report (which can be found
in .../BackupPC/bin/ and on BackupPC's Github Wiki respectively).

-- 

73,
Ged.


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