Yes, Prometheus uses "Double Delta" and other compression techniques to reduce these to a few bits per sample.
There's a good video about this: https://youtu.be/b_pEevMAC3I On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:03 PM John Dexter <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a counter metric with a label which has quite a few possible > values. However in reality many of these labeled metrics change very rarely > and some of them might never change depending on the system. > Does Prometheus intelligently handle storage in such cases? i.e. only > record changes to values so I don't have millions of copies of "0.0" > recorded each poll? > > 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/CAGJRanghFRKz-46BRhSh5K8kmQycKzqboQonL7rcnhWtXs6yxw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAGJRanghFRKz-46BRhSh5K8kmQycKzqboQonL7rcnhWtXs6yxw%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/CABbyFmrcnvKb1YGut75zeNDibSAiLrxTEnQ48sJqcDhMS5bMSQ%40mail.gmail.com.
