Did you set the retention (--storage.tsdb.retention.time) to long enough on your new Prometheus instance, so that the old data doesn't slide out of the retention window?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:29 PM KARIM MANAOUIL <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am doing analysis of a Kubernetes cluster and because I don't have > permanent access to it, I thought about this idea of importing Prometheus > TSDB and analyze the data using a local Prometheus instance. I succeeded to > do that using snapshots as told here > <https://www.robustperception.io/taking-snapshots-of-prometheus-data>. I > dumped the snapshot into my local machine, spawned up a Prometheus > container setting tsdb.path to the snapshot's path and it worked great, I > can see the old data and perform queries. One night after, I woke up, > uncompressed the snapshot again and launched a fresh new Prometheus > instance but unfortunately now I can't see the old data. I have no idea why. > > The documentation <https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/1.8/storage/> > says something about heap-size and memory-chunks but that's doesn't work > and arguments are invalid when I tried them. > > I noticed after the server is launched, the head is garbage collected and > maybe this is the reason but honestly I have no idea. > > So please is there anyway to correct this issue and be able to use my old > restored snapshot ? > > 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/de43a1a9-d2d9-4c4a-ae1f-e16850a4da54%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/de43a1a9-d2d9-4c4a-ae1f-e16850a4da54%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/CA%2BT6YoyCxR%3D63FbzpvDUhakYxkW9QO%3D5U9merN2uV4Wwn0eGYg%40mail.gmail.com.
