How to keep track of key dates and metrics

[gquentin]

• How to keep key dates easily in “quick ranges” or other places?
• How to keep important metrics (key dates) forever (without retention dates) while the main database has a retention date? Copying metrics in another database?

Regards

[mefraimsson]

Hi,

@gquentin

How to keep key dates easily in “quick ranges” or other places?

Saving custom time ranges and re-use throughout different dashboards are not supported in Grafana. If you have all the time ranges available (in epoch format) and links to your dashboard I guess you can generate links to your dashboards including querystring parameters with time range, e.g. &from=1518694028126&to=1518780428126.

I would suggest you to have a look at annotations for keeping track of important events. There’s native annotations that you can create and store in Grafana database or annotations by querying other data sources.

@gquentin

How to keep important metrics (key dates) forever (without retention dates) while the main database has a retention date? Copying metrics in another database?

Solution may depend on the time-series database you’re using, but yes in general I would say copying metrics to another database or the same (using other retention policy).

Marcus