@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 sup...@gmail.com 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 <vteja...@gmail.com> > 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 prometheus-use...@googlegroups.com. >> > 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 prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/e3a7da84-afec-41cd-a8e8-be56261afd53n%40googlegroups.com.
