You're not cleaning tombstones, you're deleting timeseries. This means that
the endpoint needs to be
/api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_series?match[]={instance="foo"}
just like the page I linked you to says.
On Monday, 5 December 2022 at 04:40:42 UTC [email protected] wrote:
> I enabled this flag (--web.enable-admin-api) and executed this command
> curl -XPOST http://localhost:9090/api/v1/admin/tsdb/clean_tombstones
>
> Still, I am able to see the deleted instances while executing the
> prometheus query.
>
> On Sunday, 4 December 2022 at 23:26:45 UTC+5:30 Brian Candler wrote:
>
>> Use Google. Enter "prometheus delete timeseries", and you will find:
>>
>> https://www.robustperception.io/deleting-time-series-from-prometheus/
>>
>> This gives the exact command.
>>
>> On Sunday, 4 December 2022 at 17:20:28 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> could you please help me with the exact command?
>>>
>>> On Sunday, 4 December 2022 at 22:18:28 UTC+5:30 [email protected]
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The default retention is set to 15d iirc, so once that ages out it wil
>>>> disappear. You can also use promtool to manually delete out data if you
>>>> really wish.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From: *[email protected] <[email protected]> on
>>>> behalf of BHARATH KUMAR <[email protected]>
>>>> *Date: *Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 11:00 AM
>>>> *To: *Prometheus Users <[email protected]>
>>>> *Subject: *[prometheus-users] How to delete the historical data
>>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I installed node exporter in multiple instances. Now I deleted one of
>>>> those instance(this is unreachable instance) from prometheus.yml file.
>>>> When
>>>> I am trying to query up == 0, still I am able to see this instance in the
>>>> database.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How to delete that particular instance in database? Any help?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks & regards,
>>>>
>>>> Bharath Kumar
>>>>
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