Thanks Stuart. Is it possible to restart the prometheus without data loss 
from that point?

On Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 1:39:03 PM UTC+5:30, Stuart Clark wrote:
>
> If you are meaning the disk storage, Prometheus would stop working and you 
> might also encounter some corruption.
>
> You can control disk usage by setting the retention period or by setting 
> the maximum space to remain available.
>
> I'd strongly suggest putting the storage on a separate mount and also 
> using the node exporter with alerts to ensure you don't run out of space. 
>
> On 20 February 2020 05:18:03 GMT, adi garg <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Julius and Julien. Awesome answers. This is related to RAM, but 
>> what will happen if the secondary storage is not sufficient to take the 
>> metrics. What will happen in that case?
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 10:32:43 PM UTC+5:30, Julius Volz 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> While an explicit memory limit is not configurable, there are a number 
>>> of knobs in Prometheus that one can configure that limit resource usage 
>>> along certain dimensions, for example 
>>> https://www.robustperception.io/limiting-promql-resource-usage.
>>>
>>> There's also a setting that prevents a maximum number of samples 
>>> ingested per scrape.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 5:34 PM Julien Pivotto <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 19 Feb 08:24, adi garg wrote:
>>>> > So what will happen if prometheus crosses the RAM limit, will it die? 
>>>> Or is 
>>>> > it gonna affect the other processes running on the system?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is the operating system that will chose. Prometheus will probably be
>>>> terminated by the operating system.
>>>>
>>>> > 
>>>> > On Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 9:41:36 PM UTC+5:30, Julien 
>>>> Pivotto 
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> > >
>>>> > > On 19 Feb 08:08, adi garg wrote: 
>>>> > > > Hello experts, 
>>>> > > > 
>>>> > > > Is there any way to give memory specifications by ourselves in 
>>>> > > prometheus? 
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Hello, 
>>>> > >
>>>> > > No, this is not possible. Prometheus will use the memory it needs. 
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Regards, 
>>>> > >
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