I previously looked at ingestion memory for 1.x, how about 2.x?
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The Prometheus TSDB's code base includes a tool to help you find "interesting" metrics in terms of storage performance.
The 2.6.0 release of Prometheus includes WAL loading optimisations to make startup faster.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I made some memory-related improvements to Prometheus that'll be in the 1.5 release. Let's look at how I came across unneeded memory allocations and ultimately improved the code.
We previously looked at finding your biggest metrics, that involves an expensive query though. A new feature in Prometheus 1.3 offers another approach.
Ever wondered how Prometheus is using its memory? Let's find out!
