I guess my suggestion is that crashing isn’t exactly a user friendly
response to something that can happen days or weeks after initial setup (if
only because of data growth) and I suggest prometheus would more actively
try to prevent it by dynamically shrinking retention for instance

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:06 Laurent Dumont <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Your retention is 16 days and you filled the data volume in 13?
>
> I don't Prometheus will alarm for it's data partition by default.
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020, 12:27 PM Laurent Demailly <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> *What did you do?*
>> Setup using community helm chart (8Gi data volume, 15 days retention)
>>
>> *What did you expect to see?*
>> Would run indefinitely without crashing
>>
>> *What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?*
>> Entered crash loop after 13 days because the volume got full.
>>
>> I expect instead some warning that older data is being deleted sooner
>> than configured retention. or an alarm. Not a crash loop.
>>
>> *Environment*
>> k8s
>>
>>
>> (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/8159 apparently must be
>> an faq or "not a bug")
>>
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