title: pushgateway or node exporter - how to add string data?
body: <p>I have a cron job that runs an sql query every day, and gives me an important integer.</p>
  
  <p>And I have to expose that integer to the Prometheus server.</p>
  
  <p>As I've seen I have two options; use the <strong>pushgateway</strong> or <strong>node exporter</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>But that metric (integer) that I get from the sql query also need some information (like the company name, and the database that I got it from).</p>
  
  <p>What would be a better way?</p>
  
  <p>For instance this is what I made for my metric:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    count = some number
  
      registry = CollectorRegistry()
      g = Gauge('machine_number', 'machfoobarine_stat', registry=registry).set(count)
      push_to_gateway('localhost:9091', job='batchA', registry=registry)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So how do I add key-value pairs to my metric above? 
  Do I have to change the job name ('batchA') for every single sql count that I get and expose as a metric to the pushgateway, because I can only see the last one?</p>
  
  <p>Tnx,
  Tom</p>