On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 09:25, Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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)? >
I'd be also interested in what versions of Java/Python are in use, and in particular what are the oldest JVM versions that users are using the jmx_exporter with. Brian > > >> 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. > 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/CABbyFmqGobiq7NUF-jzqGXOphhG8JjYrb%3D19C5Sm6W5CctmquA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABbyFmqGobiq7NUF-jzqGXOphhG8JjYrb%3D19C5Sm6W5CctmquA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Brian Brazil www.robustperception.io -- 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/CAHJKeLpMkTe0LU_MiTEe9BgDCDAtQ7BCVaiXtjPRzoQ4FO1WTA%40mail.gmail.com.
