Common patterns and pitfalls

With such a powerful language at your disposal, it's easy to become overwhelmed with so many options. In the following sections, we'll provide some common patterns and pitfalls to ensure the intended use of PromQL for each situation described, and in this way, further enforcing the knowledge that we have provided you with so far.

Patterns

While the power and flexibility of PromQL allows for a world of possibilities in terms of information extraction, there are a few query patterns that make a set of common problems much easier to understand and help increase the level of insight into the monitored services. In the following topics, we'll be covering a few of our favorites, in the...