Hi Stuart, I forgot to ask the most important question on this topic :-) Could you explain the reason for not supporting NFS based storage in Prometheus?
Thanks, Teja On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 11:02:54 PM UTC+2 tejaswini vadlamudi wrote: > Thanks Stuart, now I understand support in Prometheus project. > Though renowned storage vendors claim full compliance and seem to work > with Prometheus data, it is better to stay away from it. > > Cheers, Teja > On Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 9:53:52 PM UTC+2 Stuart Clark wrote: > >> On 03/05/2022 01:34, tejaswini vadlamudi wrote: >> > Prometheus documentation recommends to avoid NFS storage backends. But >> > a few users over internet claim support for NFS based storage from >> > Netapp in Prometheus. Just checking for opinions and feedback if this >> > storage backend is compatible enough for regular Prometheus operations. >> > >> NFS isn't a supported option for Prometheus. Prometheus can do a lot of >> I/O and therefore network storage often doesn't work all that well. You >> can also have issues if the filesystem isn't fully POSIX compliant. >> >> Just because it isn't supported doesn't mean it won't work. However >> there are issues that people find, and if you do find those the >> recommendation would always be to switch the filesystem to something >> local. So basically you'd be fairly on your own if you did have problems. >> >> -- >> Stuart Clark >> >> -- 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/4799f7e1-376c-4772-8ab3-8abfaa0e0d21n%40googlegroups.com.
