Thanks for the reply. I digged in and saw that Prometheus uses Gorilla compression.
Do we have option to change the compression method to something else . I see that Gorilla compression is an efficient one but wanted a confirmation on whether there is a way to change it to something else thanks Megarajan On Friday, 26 August 2022 at 10:37:11 UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote: > Yes, Prometheus uses compression. > > See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pEevMAC3I > > Also, I highly recommend upgrading to the latest release. The version you > are running is from 2018 and has numerous bugs. > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 7:03 AM Mega Rajan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi >> >> we are using prometheus 2.3.1 . >> >> Does prometheus use compression to store its data ? >> >> From the documentation I see that its being compacted but no reference to >> compression and any compression algorithm as such . >> >> could anyone please clarify on the compression and compression algorithm >> used by prometheus if any. >> >> thanks >> Megarajan >> >> -- >> 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/1a63ac93-4e31-4df5-9e35-3803bd137f0en%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/1a63ac93-4e31-4df5-9e35-3803bd137f0en%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/6e850231-f284-49ba-b0bb-76156340c0f0n%40googlegroups.com.

