THthemgt·Jul 21, 2020
I was testing out both TimescaleDB/InfluxDB recently, including maybe using with Prometheus/Grafana. I was leaning towards Timescale, but InfluxDB was indeed a lot easier to quickly boot a "batteries included" setup and start working with live data.
I eventually spent a while reading about Timescale 1 vs 2, and testing the pg_prometheus[1] adapter and started thinking through integrating its schema to our other needs then realizing it's "sunsetted" and then reading about the new timescale-prometheus[2] adapter and reading through its ongoing design doc[3] with updated schema that I'm less a fan of.
I finally wound up mostly-settling on Timescale although I've put the Prometheus extension question on hold, just pulling in metrics data and outputting with ChartJS and some basic queries got me a lot closer to done for now. Our use case may b
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e a little odd regardless, but I think a timescale-prometheus extension with a some ability to customize how the data is persisted would be quite useful.
[1] https://github.com/timescale/pg_prometheus
[2] https://github.com/timescale/timescale-prometheus
[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e3mAN3eHUpQ2JHDvnmkmn_9r...