Cover for scheduled recording rules, with observe, decide and act steps.

Recording rules store scheduled query results

A recording rule runs a PromQL expression at scheduled evaluation times and stores the result as a new metric. Repeated dashboard queries can then read that metric instead of recomputing the expression. Calling this a cache can obscure an important difference: the recorded series has its own sample history, cadence, and labels. It is not a transparent cache of every possible query request. ...

January 26, 2028 · 4 min · XB Field Notes