Hey Brian, that link is great to start with, thanks for sharing it. Very helpful.
If we had to test with some synthetic set of exporters with some configurable metrics, Do we really have anything we can quickly set-up on amazon ec2 and get that load tested? Just thought of finding out still... I am sure many of you must have done it already on this forum... On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:01 AM Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd be inclined to take the opposite approach: use your production > exporters, guess the initial instance size, and iterate based on how under- > or over-utilized it is. It only takes a minute to switch an instance from > one type to another in EC2. > > As a starting point for your guess, you can use this: > > https://www.robustperception.io/how-much-ram-does-prometheus-2-x-need-for-cardinality-and-ingestion > > Your real metrics are going to be a better test than any synthetic set of > metrics. Remember also that you can scrape the same targets from multiple > prometheus instances, so you can spin up a second prometheus for testing > without touching the existing one, if you have one. > > -- > 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/1c6e391b-d06b-40fb-a088-67624b559596o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/1c6e391b-d06b-40fb-a088-67624b559596o%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/CAPs_Afhmbh9JmY8Rh697P%3DOUaSOrgZijYE6EmEVfkeN2XBn_1w%40mail.gmail.com.
