Is it possible to aggregate 2 gauge metrics (i.e. kube_pod_labels and kube_pod_container_resource_requests_cpu_cores) so that by executing the query both resulting elements would be combined (i.e. all pod labels as resulting element and request_cpu_cores as value)?

Query for cpu request value looks like this sum by (namespace, pod) (kube_pod_container_resource_requests_cpu_cores{cluster="my-cluster"})

Actual result:

{namespace="my-ns",pod="my-pod"} 0.05

Query for pod labels is kube_pod_labels{label_foo="bar"}

Actual result:

kube_pod_labels{cluster="my-cluster",label_foo="bar",label_app="my-app-label",namespace="my-ns",pod="my-pod",service="my-svc"} 1

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I have tried using a left joint but it seems that grouping by a given label (pod, namespace etc) is required as explained in this https://www.robustperception.io/left-joins-in-promql.

With a multiplication operator * is possible to obtain the desired result set but the set would only contain labels specified in the by clause. Example query:

group by (namespace,pod) (kube_pod_labels{label_foo="bar",cluster="my-cluster"}) * sum by (namespace, pod) (kube_pod_container_resource_requests_cpu_cores{cluster="my-cluster"})

Example result:

{namespace="my-ns",pod="my-pod"}    0.05

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What I am trying to obtain is a resulting set containing all labels without having to filter by an arbitrary label/value

The desired result by joining the 2 queries should be:

{cluster="my-cluster",label_foo="bar", label_app="my-app-label",namespace="my-ns",pod="my-pod",service="my-svc"} 0.05

This can be achieved with a combination of the following:

• label_replace query function: For each timeseries in v, label_replace(v instant-vector, dst_label string, replacement string, src_label string, regex string) matches the regular expression regex against the value of the label src_label. If it matches, the value of the label dst_label in the returned timeseries will be the expansion of replacement, together with the original labels in the input. Capturing groups in the regular expression can be referenced with $1, $2, etc. If the regular expression doesn't match then the timeseries is returned unchanged. https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/functions/#label_replace

• multiplication * operator and group_left() modifier: Many-to-one and one-to-many matchings refer to the case where each vector element on the "one"-side can match with multiple elements on the "many"-side. This has to be explicitly requested using the group_left or group_right modifier, where left/right determines which vector has the higher cardinality. https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/operators/

Example query:

label_replace(kube_pod_labels{},"label","$1","label_", "(.+)") 
* on (cluster,namespace, pod) group_left() 
(sum by (cluster,namespace, pod) (kube_pod_container_resource_requests_cpu_cores{}))

Note that: If the regular expression doesn't match then the timeseries is returned unchanged. In this case the regular expression does not match - hence the full set of labels is return unchanged.

Example result:

{cluster="my-cluster",label_foo="bar", label_app="my-app-label",namespace="my-ns",pod="my-pod",service="my-svc"} 0.05

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Felipe provided a valuable hint on how to achieve this result in a comment for the original question.