Is there anyway to make use of the prometheus help text associated with a metric in the “panel description” or the metrics “Legend”
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The HELP text in Prometheus’ exposition format was invented with the intent of creating functionality later.
Prometheus recently added an query API endpoint to retrieve this information:
https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#querying-target-metadata
Grafana’s Prometheus plugin currently does not use this API call so the metadata is not available in Grafana.
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Would be nice to have this. Helpful in building dashboards, etc. Particularly for passing through “_info” style metrics. https://www.robustperception.io/exposing-the-software-version-to-prometheus
Has there been any update regarding this? Does it make sense to create an enhancement request?
or is it resolved with https://grafana.com/blog/2020/06/15/how-we-made-working-with-prometheus-easier-with-metric-metadata-in-grafanas-explore-view/
Prometheus: Add title to metrics in the metric select with metric help text was supposedly fixed in Grafana 8.5.