Author: @gotjosh Reviewers: @gouthamve, @pracucci Date: March 2020 Status: Accepted Problem Statement Prometheus holds metric metadata alongside the contents of a scrape. This metadata (HELP, TYPE, UNIT and METRIC_NAME) enables some Prometheus API endpoints to output the metadata for integrations (e.g. Grafana) to consume it. At the moment of writing, Cortex does not support the api/v1/metadata endpoint that Prometheus implements as metadata was never propagated via remote write. Recent work ...
