Managing metrics using the Appclacks CLI

The Appclacks CLI can be used to manage metrics.

All commands support an --output option to change its output format (default to table, json is also supported).

Creating your first metrics

Let’s create several metrics using the Appclacks CLI:

appclacks pushgateway create --name example_1 --value 10
appclacks pushgateway create --name example_2 --value 20 --labels environment=production --labels application=foo --description "my metric description" --type gauge

Appclacks will expose these metrics on the /pushgateway/metrics endpoint (see the Observability section:

example_1{} 10
# HELP example_2 my metric description
# TYPE example_2 gauge
example_2{application="foo", environment="production"} 20

Metrics TTL

By default, metrics in the push gateway will never expire.

You can configure a TTL on the metrics by specifying the ttl to the command, for example for a 2 minutes TTL:

appclacks pushgateway create --name example_3 --value 20 --labels environment=production --labels application=foo --description "my metric description" --type gauge --ttl 2m

Managing metrics

• You can list the metrics with appclacks pushgateway list
• You can delete a metric by ID by using appclacks pushgateway delete
• You can delete all metrics using appclacks pushgateway delete-all