16k samples/s is not a lot. There are many Prometheus users with hundreds of thousands of samples/s on a single Prometheus server. Across their organisations i

16k samples/s is not a lot. There are many Prometheus users with hundreds of thousands of samples/s on a single Prometheus server. Across their organisations it can be much more, Fastly has reported 2.2M/s (https://promcon.io/2018-munich/slides/monitoring-at-scale-migrating-to-prometheus-at-fastly.pdf https://promcon.io/2018-munich/slides/monitoring-at-scale-mi...) for example.