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October 5, 2020

How long can Prometheus retention be?

Data is smaller and disks are bigger than you'd think.

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April 13, 2020

How much space does the WAL take up?

The quoted storage numbers for Prometheus are usually for the blocks, not including the WAL.

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January 13, 2020

Optimising index memory usage for blocks

One of the big changes in Prometheus 2.15.0 was reduced memory usage for indexes.

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June 24, 2019

How much disk space do Prometheus blocks use?

Memory for ingestion is just one part of the resources Prometheus uses, let's look at disk blocks.

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June 3, 2019

Finding churning targets in Prometheus with scrape_series_added

Prometheus 2.10 has a new metric to make finding churn easier.

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April 8, 2019

Configuring Prometheus storage retention

How can you control how much history Prometheus keeps?

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February 4, 2019

Using tsdb analyze to investigate churn and cardinality

The Prometheus TSDB's code base includes a tool to help you find "interesting" metrics in terms of storage performance.

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January 21, 2019

Optimising Prometheus 2.6.0 Memory Usage with pprof

The 2.6.0 release of Prometheus includes optimisations to reduce the memory taken by indexes and compaction.

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January 7, 2019

Optimising startup time of Prometheus 2.6.0 with pprof

The 2.6.0 release of Prometheus includes WAL loading optimisations to make startup faster.

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