Multiple data points when using push/influx/write endpoint

Grafana Cloud
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I’m trying to use the HTTP Metrics integration type and am pushing the example metric from the configuration details using curl:

API_KEY="id:api-key"
URL="https://influx-prod-10-prod-us-central-0.grafana.net/api/v1/push/influx/write"

curl -X  POST -H  "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" -H  "Content-Type: text/plain" "$URL" -d "test,bar_label=abc,source=grafana_cloud_docs metric=35.2"

However when I view that metric in the Explore panel in Grafana it always shows as five or six datapoints, all with different timestamps. Why is that?

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Welcome @swandog

I am confused. Is your data in InfluxDB or Prometheus? Your screenshot seems to indicate that you have selected Prometheus as the datasource.

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My data is just this string “test,bar_label=abc,source=grafana_cloud_docs metric=35.2” that I’m posting through curl. I’m basically looking at this tutorial and sending Influx data, Push metrics from Influx Telegraf to Prometheus | Grafana Cloud documentation