Importing metrics¶
To import PMM metrics into local PMM instance, use the pmm-dump import command. By default, PMM Dump imports all performance metrics and does not import QAN data even if it exists in the dump file.
The following table lists all options applicable for the import command.
| Name | Value Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| help | NaN | NaN | Show context-sensitive help |
| pmm-url | String | NaN | PMM connection string, e.g. --pmm-url=https://admin:admin@127.0.0.1:443 |
| pmm-host | String | NaN | PMM server host(with scheme), e.g. --pmm-host=htps://127.0.0.1 |
| pmm-port | Integer | NaN | PMM server port |
| pmm-user | String | NaN | PMM credentials user |
| pmm-pass | String | NaN | PMM credentials password |
| victoria-metrics-url | String | NaN | VictoriaMetrics connection string |
| click-house-url | String | NaN | ClickHouse connection string |
| dump-core | Boolean | True | Import core metrics? To disable, specify option no-dump-core |
| dump-qan | Boolean | False | Import QAN metrics? |
| verbose (-v) | Boolean | False | Enable verbose mode |
| allow-insecure-certs | Boolean | False | Accept any certificate presented by the server and any host name in that certificate |
| dump-path (-d) | String | pmm-dump-{CURRENT_TIMESTAMP}.tar.gz | Path to the dump file |
| workers | Integer | Number of CPU cores | The number of writing workers |
| vm-content-limit | Integer | 0 | Limit the chunk content size for VictoriaMetrics (in bytes). Doesn’t work with native format. |
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