There are many statsD metrics. Some count slow producer events, slow consumer events and exception events. For these types of metric I'd like to send a text string which is displayed in Grafana next to the metric count. Like a log. Instead of reading a log file, the metric is like a tweet i.e. a free text statsD string with some max length that describes the slow producer, consumer or exception events.
It looks like I can send a statsD set with some free text. Then it's captured by Prometheus and sent to Grafana.
Is there a better way to achieve this "tweeting" of metric descriptions?