You can use remote write to deliver data from a Prometheus instance created in Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to a self-managed Prometheus instance. This way, you can query or store the metric data of Managed Service for Prometheus instances and self-managed ones in a centralized manner.
Prerequisites
A Prometheus instance is created. For more information, see the following:
EventBridge is activated. For more information, see Activate EventBridge and grant permissions to a RAM user.
NoteThis feature requires EventBridge (commercially available since June 3, 2025). Refer to EventBridge fees for billing details.
Limitations
Prometheus instance data cannot be delivered to a free Prometheus instance.
The following table lists the instances that support data delivery.
Instance
Description
Prometheus for Alibaba Cloud services
The free instance, except for those starting with the name cloud-product-prometheus.
Prometheus for container services
N/A
Prometheus for application monitoring
N/A
Prometheus for Flink Serverless
N/A
Prometheus for Kubernetes
N/A
General-purpose Prometheus instance
The general-purpose instance, except for those whose data is reported through OpenTelemetry endpoints.
When you deliver the data in the virtual private cloud (VPC), if the VPC where the Prometheus instance resides is not the same as the target VPC, ensure that the IP address of the vSwitch in the target VPC has been added to the whitelist of the Prometheus instance. Otherwise, network connection may fail.
On the vSwitch page in the VPC console, you can obtain the CIDR block of the vSwitch.
Only real-time data generated after you create a delivery task can be exported. Delivering historical data is not supported.
Step 1: Create a delivery task
Log on to the Managed Service for Prometheus console.
In the left navigation pane, click Data Delivery.
On the Data Delivery page, select a region in the top navigation bar and click Create Task.
In the dialog box that appears, set the Task Name and Task Description parameters, and click OK.
On the Edit Task page, configure the data source and event target.
Click + Add Data Source, set the parameters, and then click OK. The following table lists the parameters.
Parameter
Description
Example
Prometheus Instance
The Prometheus instance whose data you want to deliver.
c78cb8273c02*****
Data Filtering
The label of the metric to be filtered.
Regular expressions are supported. Use line breaks to separate multiple conditions. The data can be delivered only when the relationship among the conditions is Logical AND.
__name__=AliyunEcs_CPUUtilization|AliyunEcs_memory_usedutilization regionId=cn-hangzhou id=i-2ze0mxp.*Data Labeling
The label you add to metric data to be delivered. Use line breaks to separate multiple labels.
deliver_test_key1=ssss deliver_test_key2=yyyyClick Add Target. In the panel that appears, set the Destination Type parameter to Prometheus Remote Write, set other parameter as prompted (you can also set the external_labels parameter), and then click OK.
On the Edit Task page, click OK and Save.
Step 2: Configure the remote write endpoint and authentication
Prometheus instance type | Remote write endpoint | Requirements |
Managed Service for Prometheus instance | For more information, see Configure open-source Prometheus to read monitoring data from Managed Service for Prometheus by using a remote read URL. | You must specify an authentication method and an AccessKey pair that has the required permissions. For more information, see View the information about AccessKey pairs of a RAM user. |
Self-managed Prometheus instance | For more information, see Open source Prometheus documentation. |
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Step 3: Configure the network
Prometheus instance type | Network type | Network requirements |
Managed Service for Prometheus instance | Internet | None. |
VPC | Select a VPC in the same region, and configure the Remote Write URL as the internal endpoint of Service for Prometheus. | |
Self-managed Prometheus instance | Internet | None. |
VPC | Select a VPC and vSwitch that can access the self-managed Prometheus instance. A data delivery task automatically selects an IP address on the chosen vSwitch as the outbound IP address. Note Prometheus uses Server Load Balancer (SLB) to expose services. For more information, see Service management. |
Step 4: Verify the result
Log on to the Managed Service for Prometheus console.
In the left navigation pane, click Instances.
Click the name of the Prometheus instance. In the left navigation pane of the page that appears, click Service Discovery.
On the Metrics tab, check whether the metric data is delivered as expected.