Backing Up and Open Source benchmarking data

[average-gary]

It would be nice to have a mechanism for tool runners to export their data in a shareable way that can be imported into a Prometheus/Grafana setup to view the raw data itself for additional analysis/review.

• Easy export Prometheus data to a "backup"
• Import Prometheus data to new instance

PS: Maybe we provide a way to OTS the data set

[Shourya742]

Sure thing! We can do that. Prometheus has a snapshot API that lets you save your data and restore it later, making it portable. cc: @GitGab19

[GitGab19]

That's great, I wasn't aware of this feature!
Do you want to take this up @Shourya742 ?

[Shourya742]

I can give it a try once done with my other assigned task.

That's great, I wasn't aware of this feature! Do you want to take this up @Shourya742 ?

[GitGab19]

Regarding the UX, I see the following as a possible behavior:

• export-benchmarks-data.sh script which allows user to export prometheus data for a specific timeframe
  • the script should be able to ask user the selected timeframe and use that input
• verify/import-benchmarks-data.sh script which takes the prometheus snapshot as input and mounts it in prometheus
  • this script should not override other prometheus volumes

This is the first thing which came up in my mind, but feel free to expand more and comment on that!