On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 14:23, Al <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently on-boarding many more metrics and hosts to our Prometheus > infrastructure and I wanted to know when is it advised to shard out metrics > into a separate instance? I have multiple shards (or groups) of Prometheus > instances although one of the groups of instances has over 3 million total > series in it, even though its ingestion rate doesn't really go above a > comfortable 100k series/second. I know that a single instance can > typically handle up to 1 million series per second, although I can't seem > to find clear guidelines with regards to the total number of series per > Prometheus host. Some of the metrics have a relatively higher > cardinality, thus causing the higher number of series. I'd appreciate any > advice you can provide me with. >
The limit currently appears to be somewhere in the low tens of millions of head series. Brian > > 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/608224ac-f7fc-4dbb-9b18-0e7ed4f6e604%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/608224ac-f7fc-4dbb-9b18-0e7ed4f6e604%40googlegroups.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/CAHJKeLqiD1X-vUtHQysK%2BDh6q23YyQub-%2B_V4AtRNTNTEjUbwQ%40mail.gmail.com.
