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Nice write up. I love reading these kinds of postmortems. Unlike a lot of those I read, it sounds like you actually set out with a good set of requirements and
by syastrov 8y ago
Nice write up. I love reading these kinds of postmortems.
Unlike a lot of those I read, it sounds like you actually set out with a good set of requirements and really understood the problem.
I had a good experience using Prometheus as well for a smaller project (server monitoring). It’s interesting to know that it can handle so many metrics and scale so well to more complex problem areas.
- joyzheng 8y agoOne of the blog authors here -- thanks! > I had a good experience using Prometheus as well for a smaller project (server monitoring). It’s interesting to know that it can handle so many metrics and scale so well to more complex problem areas. Yep, we started out with a pretty simple prometheus setup too (two instances scraping the same metrics, just for redundancy) but have been adding federated instances and doing some pre-aggregation to scale; the nice part is that we've been able to do it pretty gradually by updating the config (e.g. splitting out one bucket of metrics into a separate node for scraping at a time).
- tigre100 8y agoWe took a similar journey with Prometheus @ Improbable. We found federation to have its limits & wanted a global query view as well as a few other nice features: https://improbable.io/games/blog/thanos-prometheus-at-scale https://improbable.io/games/blog/thanos-prometheus-at-scale