Importing metrics

To import PMM metrics into a 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
allow-insecure-certs	Boolean	False	Accept any certificate presented by the server and any host name in that certificate
click-house-url	String	None	ClickHouse connection string
dump-core	Boolean	True	Import core metrics? To disable, specify option no-dump-core
dump-path (-d)	String	pmm-dump-{CURRENT_TIMESTAMP}.tar.gz	Path to the dump file
dump-qan	Boolean	False	Import QAN metrics?
encryption	Boolean	False	Enable encryption
help	Boolean	None	Show context-sensitive help
pass	String	None	Encryption password
pmm-host	String	None	PMM server host (with scheme), e.g. --pmm-host=https://127.0.0.1
pmm-pass	String	None	PMM credentials password
pmm-port	Integer	None	PMM server port
pmm-url	String	None	PMM connection string, e.g. --pmm-url=https://admin:[email protected]:443
pmm-user	String	None	PMM credentials user
verbose (-v)	Boolean	False	Enable verbose mode
victoria-metrics-url	String	None	VictoriaMetrics connection string
vm-content-limit	Integer	0	Limit the chunk content size for VictoriaMetrics (in bytes). Doesn’t work with native format.
workers	Integer	Number of CPU cores	The number of writing workers