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		momothereal on Jan 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can I have a smaller Prometheus To be precise it was the other way around. OpenMetrics is a standardization effort for the format Prometheus made up. However Prometheus was designed before JSON was standardized itself, so I'm just glad they didn't choose XML!

lokar on Jan 28, 2022 [–]

And the Prometheus format is a copy of the "varz" format

SuperQue on Jan 29, 2022 | [–]

Sorta, I would say it's an evolution of varz.

IIRC (it's been almost a decade since I used varz), having multiple label values would be a map of maps in varz. It got quite ugly if you wanted to have a number of dimensions.

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