Thanks for the link to the other survey. That's pretty good. On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:27 PM 'Tom Lee' via Prometheus Users < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Richard, > > Reading between the lines it sounds like we're *potentially* talking > about a broader/larger "State of Clojure > <https://clojure.org/news/2020/02/20/state-of-clojure-2020>" type thing > for Prometheus. Is that accurate? > > Certainly don't mind the results being public. My only real concern is > timelines: we were hoping to use some of the raw data to help advise some > load testing on our end, and things are already looking pretty aggressive. > If we're looking at something that's going to take weeks or more to start > seeing results rolling in we probably won't quite get the data we were > hoping to get in time. From a purely selfish perspective we'd be pretty > disappointed to go forward without data from "the source", so to speak. Of > course, I totally understand the team's actions here. I'm just whining to > myself. > > Timelines aside, we'd be excited to see something "official" in the longer > term. It would be useful for engineers like myself, and I know there are > product managers and research folks lurking our virtual halls who would > love such readily available data for future efforts. > > The questions from our survey: > > - Roughly how many Prometheus *servers* are you operationally > responsible for? > - Of all the Prometheus servers that you are responsible for, which > version would you say is the most widely deployed? > > The first two questions are good. I might modify the first one to clarify with/without HA. For example, we have 21 Prometheus servers, but 7 of those are duplicates for HA. > > - How many unique metrics are reporting across all of your Prometheus > servers? > - How many unique *timeseries* are reporting across all of your > Prometheus servers? > > These two need to be clarified for Prometheus. We tend to use the terms metrics and time-series interchangeably. Are you asking about unique metric names? > > - If you use Grafana to visualize your Prometheus data, what version > of Grafana do you typically use? > - What value do you typically use for the "scrape_interval" config > setting in your Prometheus servers? > - Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your > Prometheus deployment(s)? For example, interesting challenges, pain points, > or quirks of your configuration? > > I have a few additional questions that could be added to the list. * How many unique exporter/target types do you have? * What is your samples/second ingestion rate across all Prometheus servers? * What is your general metric retention time? * Do you use external storage (Federation/remote_write/etc) * If yes, which external storage system(s)? > Look forward to whatever might eventuate here, those big community surveys > are always a lot of fun to read through. > > Cheers, > Tom > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 9:25 AM Richard Hartmann < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> >> after some internal deliberation, we think it would be unfair to give >> any single survey our official blessing, and running more than once >> every, say, year seems to be too much for users, too. On the other >> hand, user surveys make sense for everyone. >> >> Would you be OK with sending your questions to >> [email protected] or as a reply in this thread? We >> would then publish them for comments/feedback and run the survey under >> the Prometheus umbrella, sharing replies publicly. >> >> >> Best, >> Richard >> >> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 9:44 PM 'Tom Lee' via Prometheus Users >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Understood Julius, appreciate the transparency. Thank you! >> > >> > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:37 PM Julius Volz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> >> >> Thanks for checking in first! We're currently discussing within the >> Prometheus Team how we would prefer to handle such requests in general (so >> that things remain fair between companies, etc.) and will get back to you >> as soon. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Julius >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 7:21 PM 'Tom Lee' via Prometheus Users < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi folks, >> >>> >> >>> Full disclosure: I'm an engineer from New Relic ( >> https://newrelic.com/). We've been looking into improving our open >> source monitoring story and Prometheus is a key piece of that. Right now, >> though, there are some pieces of the puzzle that we can't easily dig into >> without more input from the Prometheus community at large. >> >>> >> >>> Is this mailing list an okay place to send a Google Forms type survey >> with maybe half a dozen questions? And if not, can folks suggest somewhere >> that might be more appropriate? >> >>> >> >>> Cheers, >> >>> Tom >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> 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/b48e651a-b264-4ade-8eb8-7dc7eec11b15%40googlegroups.com >> . >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Julius Volz >> >> PromLabs - promlabs.com >> > >> > -- >> > 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/CAMUmz5j6aqwyJ8aDmFvggkD%2BeTpMMLzM0zTp1kXgnFP%2Bd%3Dw5fQ%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> >> >> >> -- >> Richard >> > -- > 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/CAMUmz5gNNk4naMFLJ_cWQJQO5g1pGVTZnn74FF4PV%3DHOmhpTqw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAMUmz5gNNk4naMFLJ_cWQJQO5g1pGVTZnn74FF4PV%3DHOmhpTqw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. 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