prometheus/pushgateway

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

3361 stars · 494 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Prometheus Pushgateway is a metrics acceptor service that lets ephemeral and batch jobs push their metrics so Prometheus can scrape them later. It acts as a metrics cache rather than an aggregator, exposing pushed metrics to Prometheus in the standard pull model.

Use cases

• push metrics from short-lived batch jobs to prometheus
• expose metrics from cron jobs that finish before being scraped
• monitor service-level metrics from ephemeral CI jobs
• collect metrics from scripts that cannot be scraped directly
• bridge push-based metrics into a pull-based monitoring setup

When to choose

• your jobs are ephemeral or batch-oriented and may not live long enough to be scraped
• you need service-level metrics from short-lived processes in a Prometheus setup
• you want a simple, official Prometheus component for metric pushing

When to avoid

• you want push-based monitoring in general - Prometheus remains pull-based
• you need distributed counting or statsd-like aggregation
• you need metrics with TTLs or automatic expiration
• you need machine-level metrics - use the node_exporter textfile collector instead

Facets

service · maturity stable

monitoring http-server monitoring backend windows go self-hosted prometheus metrics push-gateway batch-jobs observability devops linux macos docker

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