# Using OpenTelemetry Exporter for Prometheus Remote Write

> Use OpenTelemetry Prometheus Exporter package in Python applications to send data to Prometheus-compatible systems such as Last9

Source: https://last9.io/docs/using-open-telemetry-exporter-for-prometheus-remote-write/

You can push custom metrics to Prometheus-compatible backends, such as Last9,
using OpenTelemetry Exporter for [Prometheus Remote Write](https://last9.io/blog/what-is-prometheus-remote-write/).

This tutorial shows how to use the
[Otel Exporter](https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/)
with a Python application to send metrics to a Prometheus-compatible backend.

Here is a sample Python application that includes the package for
[Otel Expoter for Remote Write](https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus-remote-write/).

```python
#!/usr/bin/env python

import logging
import random
import sys
import time
import json
from logging import INFO

from opentelemetry import metrics
from opentelemetry.exporter.prometheus_remote_write import (
    PrometheusRemoteWriteMetricsExporter,
)
from opentelemetry.metrics import Observation
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import PeriodicExportingMetricReader

logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


exporter = PrometheusRemoteWriteMetricsExporter(
    endpoint=sys.argv[1],
    basic_auth={
        "username": sys.argv[2],
        "password": sys.argv[3],
    },
    headers={},
)
reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(exporter, 1000)
provider = MeterProvider(metric_readers=[reader])
metrics.set_meter_provider(provider)
meter = metrics.get_meter(__name__)

requests_counter = meter.create_counter(
    name=sys.argv[4],
    description="number of requests",
)

testing_labels = json.loads(sys.argv[5])

num = random.randint(0, 1000)
requests_counter.add(num % 131 + 200, testing_labels)
logger.log(level=INFO, msg="completed metrics collection cycle")

```

The script accepts the following CLI arguments.

1. Remote Write URL
2. Username
3. Password
4. Metric name
5. Labels

A complete example is as follows:

```shell
python app.py LEVITATE_REMOTE_WRITE_URL LEVITATE_CLUSTER_USERNAME LEVITATE_CLUSTER_PASSWORD 'my_metric' '{"environment": "staging", "label": "9999"}'
```

This will insert the metric into the Remote Write backend, and we can confirm
this by looking into Grafana.

![Sample metrics](../../../../assets/content/docs/tutorials/using-open-telemetry-exporter-for-prometheus-remote-write/9aad044-image.png)

The complete code example can be found
[here](https://github.com/last9/last9-integrations/tree/master/levitate/remote-write/python).