@Ben: Makes a point, but getting Thanos or Cortex into the picture could be a way forward after some time. For now, do you think it is good enough to use remote-write instead of federation? From a performance and resource consumption POV, do you see remote-write as the way-forward?
Thanks, Teja On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 11:02:57 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > 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/e3a7da84-afec-41cd-a8e8-be56261afd53n%40googlegroups.com.
