On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 7:53 AM Isabel Noronha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > Yeah, the subject might be overwhelming... > > Firstly I'm new to Prometheus. > I have configured 3 targets to monitor containers running inside it until > now.(I have done this for around 50 containers so far) > The problem I faced is that grafana goes into a hang state as the > containers increase. > Depends on your query, you will likely need recording rules to summarize things. > > The web application I'm currently working on is used for simulation. So on > each server, we spawn around 2K containers. > so 14 servers * 2k (containers on each host) =28K containers in total. > Now I want to monitor containers running on each host. Priority would be > to know when a container is consuming extra memory/CPU/is about to go down. > Like Brian said, it's about the total metrics not the number of containers. What exactly are you monitoring? cAdvisor? Directly instrumentation? > So can Prometheus handle so much load and monitor each container? > Should I rely on the host storage /use influxDb? > InfluxDB is pretty good, but is slightly less efficient than Prometheus internal TSDB. It's a general-use TSDB and not specifically tuned for the Prometheus use case. > > > Please write your suggestions. > > Thank you, > Isabel > > > > -- > 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/ff164068-8401-4f55-830c-b45f9a44271d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/ff164068-8401-4f55-830c-b45f9a44271d%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/CABbyFmpnriqpa8teQGuoTV9cmB6eiuG93fvcZJsk0%2BSLbpNEHQ%40mail.gmail.com.
