Return all time series with the metric http_requests_total:
http_requests_total
Return all time series with the metric http_requests_total and the given
job and handler labels:
http_requests_total{job="apiserver", handler="/api/comments"}
Return a whole range of time (in this case 5 minutes) for the same vector, making it a range vector:
http_requests_total{job="apiserver", handler="/api/comments"}[5m]
Note that an expression resulting in a range vector cannot be graphed directly, but viewed in the tabular ("Console") view of the expression browser.
Using regular expressions, you could select time series only for jobs whose
name match a certain pattern, in this case, all jobs that end with server.
Note that this does a substring match, not a full string match:
http_requests_total{job=~"server$"}
To select all HTTP status codes except 4xx ones, you could run:
http_requests_total{status!~"^4..$"}
Return the per-second rate for all time series with the http_requests_total
metric name, as measured over the last 5 minutes:
rate(http_requests_total[5m])
Assuming that the http_requests_total time series all have the labels job
(fanout by job name) and instance (fanout by instance of the job), we might
want to sum over the rate of all instances, so we get fewer output time series,
but still preserve the job dimension:
sum(rate(http_requests_total[5m])) by (job)
If we have two different metrics with the same dimensional labels, we can apply binary operators to them and elements on both sides with the same label set will get matched and propagated to the output. For example, this expression returns the unused memory in MiB for every instance (on a fictional cluster scheduler exposing these metrics about the instances it runs):
(instance_memory_limit_bytes - instance_memory_usage_bytes) / 1024 / 1024
The same expression, but summed by application, could be written like this:
sum(
instance_memory_limit_bytes - instance_memory_usage_bytes
) by (app, proc) / 1024 / 1024
If the same fictional cluster scheduler exposed CPU usage metrics like the following for every instance:
instance_cpu_time_ns{app="lion", proc="web", rev="34d0f99", env="prod", job="cluster-manager"}
instance_cpu_time_ns{app="elephant", proc="worker", rev="34d0f99", env="prod", job="cluster-manager"}
instance_cpu_time_ns{app="turtle", proc="api", rev="4d3a513", env="prod", job="cluster-manager"}
instance_cpu_time_ns{app="fox", proc="widget", rev="4d3a513", env="prod", job="cluster-manager"}
...
...we could get the top 3 CPU users grouped by application (app) and process
type (proc) like this:
topk(3, sum(rate(instance_cpu_time_ns[5m])) by (app, proc))
Assuming this metric contains one time series per running instance, you could count the number of running instances per application like this:
count(instance_cpu_time_ns) by (app)
This documentation is open-source. Please help improve it by filing issues or pull requests.