Indeed, restarts do not create new series. However, we don't want a new serie even when the pods get rescheduled. On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 9:41:01 PM UTC+2, Tim Hockin wrote: > Pod restarts should not create new series'. Only if they get rescheduled, as > in a rolling update. In that case they ARE different. > > > > On Sep 6, 2017 2:06 AM, <sergei.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any way to create ordinal index of pods in a normal ReplicaSet > similarly to StatefulSet? > > From functional point of view this doesn't make much sense. But could be > really useful for our monitoring solution. We use Prometheus that scrapes > metrics from kubernetes cluster and sends it to InfluxDB. Each newly created > pod gets a unique name by adding a random suffix. The problem is that each > time a new pod of the same replica is created, a new time series is created. > This increases the metrics cardinality reducing performance and increasing > memory footprint. It also results in creating each time a new line in a > dashboard instead of continuing the same line. > > For example, suppose, we have a ReplicaSet with 2 replicas and each replica > had 5 restarts. This will result in 10 separate time series and 10 lines in a > monitoring dashboard, while with the ordinal index in place, there will be > just 2. > > When dealing with very long time intervals, hundred/thousands time series > will be created for the same instance instead of one. > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Kubernetes user discussion and Q&A" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to kubernetes-use...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to kubernet...@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/kubernetes-users. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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