Yes, Thanos will eliminate the need for instance-4. At the same time it's more efficient because it doesn't use remote write or federation. It can query data from all your Prometheus instances.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:53 PM tejaswini vadlamudi <[email protected]> wrote: > @Ben: Thanks for the suggestion! I heard that remote-write consumes more > system resources like CPU utilization when compared to the federation. I > can test and cross-check it myself but I would like to hear feedback from > the Prometheus experts. > @Stuart: Ideally, it is possible to manage the complete stack with > instance-1 but the current case is about deploying and monitoring multiple > workloads/software owned by different vendors. > > /Teja > On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 8:52:59 PM UTC+2 Stuart Clark wrote: > >> On 18/07/2022 18:00, tejaswini vadlamudi wrote: >> >> Hello Stuart, >> >> I have the 4 Prometheus instances in the same cluster. >> >> - Instance-1, monitoring k8s & cadvisor >> - Instance-2, monitoring workload-1 in namespace-1 >> - Instance-3, monitoring workload-2 in namespace-2 >> - Instance-4 is the central one collecting metrics from all 3 >> instances (for global querying and alerting). not sure if the federation >> is >> a good fit for this sort of deployment pattern. >> >> What's the reason for having all the different instances? Are these all >> full instances of Prometheus (with local storage) or using agent mode? >> >> If you are just going to copy everything to the "central" instance on the >> same cluster, why not just do without the extra three clusters and have >> just the one instance that monitors everything? >> >> -- >> 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/cd955a3f-fb4c-43f8-87e2-4eb006bc7df8n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/cd955a3f-fb4c-43f8-87e2-4eb006bc7df8n%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/CABbyFmrOjfax9YvqQioCJUfr8BB_b-wDsu5mWvuEKPXg_vDayA%40mail.gmail.com.
