Cloudflare API to Prometheus

4 articles

Cloudflare API to Prometheus: Architecture and Metric Semantics

Part 1 of this series: how Cloudflare analytics flows into Prometheus, why the metrics are modeled as windowed gauges, and how to avoid interpretation mistakes in Grafana.

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Part 24 min

Cloudflare API to Prometheus: Making the Exporter Reliable

Part 2 of this series: how I made Cloudflare metric ingestion reliable with delayed collection, stable buckets, local cache, replay, and backfill workflows.

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Part 35 min

Cloudflare API to Prometheus: Kubernetes and Scrape Wiring

Part 3 of this series: how I wired the Cloudflare exporter into Kubernetes and Prometheus in a way that stays maintainable under real operational pressure.

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Part 45 min

Cloudflare API to Prometheus: Grafana Overlap Analysis

Part 4 of this series: how I use Grafana to overlap Cloudflare requests and unique visitors with custom metrics to detect meaningful impact faster.

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