Prometheus timestamps are in int64 (signed) milliseconds. So the maximum
number of data points per series is: 9,223,372,036,854,775,807

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:24 PM Stuart Clark <stuart.cl...@jahingo.com>
wrote:

> On 2023-03-27 14:10, Abdelouahab Khelifati wrote:
> > I mean the maximum number of datapoints per time series, not the
> > length of a specific value.
>
> Sorry that is what I was meaning.
>
> There will be loads of resource or performance limitations - such as not
> being able to load the data for very long periods of time without huge
> amounts of memory. However in the normal usage of scrapes around every
> 30 seconds there are people who have multi-year storage retentions that
> work successfully (so that would be around a million datapoints per
> year).
>
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