You can also enable compression on the WAL with --storage.tsdb.wal-compression.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:05 PM Florin Andrei <[email protected]> wrote: > Awesome! Thank you, got it, will upgrade. > > > On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 1:59:50 PM UTC-8, Dhiman Barman wrote: >> >> >> In 2.15.0 <https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.15.0> >> [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: WAL size is now used for size based retention >> calculation. >> https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/5886 >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:45 PM Florin Andrei <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> To store Prometheus data, I have a volume with a given, fixed size. I >>> need to make sure usage level stays below 100%. >>> >>> I've already set storage.tsdb.retention.time, but this is not always >>> very effective. Sometimes large data spikes will fill up the volume. I >>> cannot reduce the retention time too much. >>> >>> I want to also use storage.tsdb.retention.size. But the problem is, this >>> doesn't take into account the WAL file size. >>> >>> Is there a way to estimate the size of WAL data? Are there any >>> guidelines for fitting the retention size in a given volume size? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Prometheus Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/f6eb1c19-5721-4d84-8b50-0f2699ff3901%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/f6eb1c19-5721-4d84-8b50-0f2699ff3901%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/f4bf8508-78a5-4eb8-aa77-ebde4533a842%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/f4bf8508-78a5-4eb8-aa77-ebde4533a842%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABbyFmpbnkcfKdyLHQGm_Cn1rMwW0pD7Jr9mA0npheRhntZ3HQ%40mail.gmail.com.
