Setting Prometheus Remote_write Period default value to 1m

CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 *Heartbeat*
 
 *Metricbeat*
-
+- Setting period for counter cache for Prometheus remote_write at least to 60sec {pull}38553[38553]
 
 *Osquerybeat*
 

x-pack/metricbeat/metricbeat.reference.yml

@@ -1334,6 +1334,9 @@ metricbeat.modules:
   # Store counter rates instead of original cumulative counters (experimental, default: false)
   #rate_counters: true
 
+  # Set timeout period for the counter cache. This cache is used to calculate the rates of counters between fetches  (experimental, default: 60sec)
+  #period: 1m
+
   # Define patterns for counter and histogram types so as to identify metrics' types according to these patterns
   #types_patterns:
   #  counter_patterns: []

x-pack/metricbeat/module/prometheus/remote_write/data.go

@@ -44,9 +44,17 @@ func remoteWriteEventsGeneratorFactory(base mb.BaseMetricSet) (remote_write.Remo
 	}
 
 	if config.UseTypes {
+
+		// /metricbeat/module/mb/mb.go defines default as Period:  time.Second * 10,
+		// We are setting Period at least 60secs because of issue https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/38458
+		duration := base.Module().Config().Period
+		if time.Duration(duration.Seconds()) < 60*time.Second {
+			duration = 60 * time.Second
+		}
+
 		// use a counter cache with a timeout of 5x the period, as a safe value
 		// to make sure that all counters are available between fetches
-		counters := collector.NewCounterCache(base.Module().Config().Period * 5)
+		counters := collector.NewCounterCache(duration * 5)
 
 		g := remoteWriteTypedGenerator{
 			counterCache: counters,