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Re:Can I have a smaller Prometheus by gempir on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:07PM (#30121094)
Prometheus follows the OpenMetrics standard I'm not sure what you find propietary about that or specific to prometheus.

https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/s...

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Re:Can I have a smaller Prometheus by momothereal on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:53PM (#30121597)
To be precise it was the other way around. OpenMetrics is a standardization effort for the format Prometheus made up.

However Prometheus was designed before JSON was standardized itself, so I'm just glad they didn't choose XML!

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Re:Can I have a smaller Prometheus by lokar on Friday January 28, 2022 @06:36PM (#30122010)
And the Prometheus format is a copy of the "varz" format
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Re:Can I have a smaller Prometheus by SuperQue on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:12AM (#30126415)
Sorta, I would say it's an evolution of varz.

IIRC (it's been almost a decade since I used varz), having multiple label values would be a map of maps in varz. It got quite ugly if you wanted to have a number of dimensions.

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