It allows to modify exist series values.
User must write modified series into vminsert API
/insert/0/prometheus/api/v1/update/series
vminsert will generate id and add it to the series as __generation_id
label.
Modified series merged at vmselect side.
Only last series modify request at given time range will be applied.
Modification request could be exported with the following API request:
`curl localhost:8481/select/0/prometheus/api/v1/export -g -d
'reduce_mem_usage=true' -d 'match[]={__generation_id!=""}'`
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/844
adds guide
allow single datapoint modification
vmselectapi: prevent MetricBlockRef corruption
Modofying of MetricName byte slice may result into MetricBlockRef
corruption, since `ctx.mb.MetricName` is a pointer to
`MetricBlockRef.MetricName`.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Revert "vmselectapi: prevent MetricBlockRef corruption"
This reverts commit cf36bfa1895885fcc7dc2673248ee56c78180ea0.
app/vmstorage/servers: properly copy MetricName into MetricBlock inside blockIterator.NextBlock
This should fix the issue at cf36bfa189
(cherry picked from commit 916f1ab86c)
app/vmselect: correctly update single datapoint at merge
app/vmselect: adds mutex for series update map
previously it was sync api, but function signature was changed for performance optimizations
