Okay, for whoever sees this in the future, it's being investigated: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/7305
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 8:48:03 PM UTC-4, Manuel Díez Frutos wrote: > > I'm running prometheus on docker and I just realized that about 2h ago, > there's a new directory in the storage folder (next to "wal" and all the > other regular directories) called "chunks_head", and contains 450 files, > named 025115 through 025564, each 512M in size. > > Looking at disk usage graphs, it grew almost instantly to that size, the > rests of the files in the storage folder are less than 200MB combined (I > have been running it for a few days only). I have not been able to find > anything about that directory, except for this unanswered stackoverflow > question that has the same issue as me: > https://stackoverflow.com/q/61986914/1364822 > > Thank you! > -- 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/91863e40-a58b-4adb-ae59-713651e1af4f%40googlegroups.com.
