When you stop prometheus it writes out its WAL to disk, and when you start it it reads in WAL back from disk. This is why a prometheus restart can take several minutes (and you should ensure that your supervisor process isn't configured to do a hard kill after a short timeout).
Of course it won't be ingesting data during that time, but if you have a second instance, that one still will be. -- 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/53472fb2-eef8-483f-b2b5-e338fab58c65%40googlegroups.com.
