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Re:A Prometheus fork for cloud scale anomaly detection acros... by SuperQue on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:14PM (#22714383)
Backfilling data is on the roadmap. It's already possible, the tools are being worked on.

Also, accurate reporting and backfill are not related.

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Re:A Prometheus fork for cloud scale anomaly detection acros... by chaps on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:44PM (#22714547)
It's been on the road map for at least two and a half years, so that's not very convincing: https://web.archive.org/web/20170708101602/https://prometheu...

Curious to know why you don't think accurate reporting and backfilling aren't related. In my experience, they absolutely are -- mostly during disaster scenarios, where that information is more critical than any other time.

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Re:A Prometheus fork for cloud scale anomaly detection acros... by hnarn on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:09AM (#22718004)
> accurate reporting and backfill are not related.

I strongly disagree. If you are unable to backfill data then report accuracy will be affected during multiple scenarios, including migrations from other products, unplanned downtime etc. Not having backfill is accepting that reports will suffer as soon as historical data is inaccurate and basically saying that you don't care.

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