From 225f51af67360f3e5c72c2b18c6aacef11b99997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Tarhan Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:56:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Made doc a bit better --- docs/checks/promql/offset.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/checks/promql/offset.md b/docs/checks/promql/offset.md index f2700d16..80fce4f4 100644 --- a/docs/checks/promql/offset.md +++ b/docs/checks/promql/offset.md @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ grand_parent: Documentation # promql/offset -This check will warn if a metric selector name matches a configured prefix and doesn't have a minimum offset. +This check inspects metric selectors whose name matches a specified prefix and doesn't have a corresponding minimum offset. Some cloud monitoring services (e.g. AWS CloudWatch) metrics' have a delay before reaching Prometheus, -so queries on these metrics should be used with an offset that matches the delay to look at the "past". +so queries on these metrics should be used with an offset that matches or exceeds the delay. ## Configuration