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> I didn't realize you could disable local storage. You are correct: there is no option to disable so we set to discard after 2 hours. Prometheus doesn’t write
by bboreham 8y ago
> I didn't realize you could disable local storage.
You are correct: there is no option to disable so we set to discard after 2 hours. Prometheus doesn’t write continuously to disk so the io is not noticeable.
To your original question, yes we could produce another agent from the Prometheus code which did discovery, scraping and sending but not disk storage. We choose not to as it’s another thing to maintain.
Also we want an option to queue on disk when the network link to push is down.
(I am a Cortex maintainer)