Thank you very much.

May I ask if there is a way to make multiple Prometheus instances to scrape 
different targets?

Compared the 2 solution, scraping same targerts vs scraping different 
targets, which is more better?

On Monday, June 7, 2021 at 6:08:47 PM UTC+8 Stuart Clark wrote:

> When doing autoscaling (not specifically with Prometheus but everything) 
> you need to ensure that you don't have too many changes happening at once, 
> otherwise you might start rejecting requests (if all instances are 
> restarting at the same time).
>
> This would generally be done via things like pod distuption budgets. For a 
> pair of Prometheus servers I'd not want more than one change at once. For 
> other systems I might go as far as N-1 changes at once.
>
> On Monday, 7 June 2021 at 11:05:20 UTC+1 Stuart Clark wrote:
>
>> On 2021-06-07 10:36, nina guo wrote:
>> > Autoscaling based on the prometheus metrics load.
>> > For example, if during the recent minutes, the metrics is more than
>> > 50m, a new prometheus pod will be started.
>> > 
>>
>> So you are wanting to autoscale Prometheus itself? That's not normally 
>> needed, as the load should be pretty even across instances (assuming 
>> some sort of load balancing or dedup process in front that handles 
>> queries) as each instance will be scraping the same targets. If the 
>> number of targets/time series increases you might need to increase the 
>> memory usage (so vertical pod autoscaling of the two instances rather 
>> than horizontal pod autoscaling). Similarly for queries it would be more 
>> memory you might need mostly rather than additional instances - if you 
>> are expecting massive query load maybe something like Thanos might be a 
>> good option?
>>
>> -- 
>> Stuart Clark
>>
>

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