More buckets cost more to store and process, but thankfully there is now
Prometheus "native histograms", which give you high resolution for less
cost.

https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/#native-histograms

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon23emea/presentation/rabenstein

This is already supported by the smokeping_prober, but you may need to
enable it in Prometheus.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:35 PM Alexander Wilke <nachtfalk...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would Like to know If there are any technical disadvantages or
> limitations If I use a high(er) amount of buckets?
>
> And is there a possibility to Aggregate buckets later in PromQL/Grafana?
> My Idea was so unsere more buckets to have detailed View in latencies If I
> want to investigate Something specific in a specific time frame.
>
> But as for Overview i do Not need all the fine grained bucket steps.
>
> For time range i can use rate.
> But is there a possibility to lets say Aggregate buckets
>
> 0.5-1.0s
> 1.0-2.0s
> 2.0-3.0s
>
> To one bucket 0.5-3.0s
>
> TL;DR.
> Any technical limitations or disadvantages with Higher amount of buckets
> How to Aggregate buckets for Overview but expand it for detailed Analysis
> If needed?
>
>
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