1. “Prometheus: How We Slashed Memory Usage” (Devoriales).
“In the production Kubernetes cluster I worked on, Prometheus memory usage climbed past 55 GB, peaking at 60 GB, despite an already oversized node. Indeed, the environment was rapidly growing in the number of applications, but the situation was still not sustainable.”
2. “Understanding and optimizing resource consumption in Prometheus” (Palark blog).
“While Prometheus is an excellent and capable monitoring system, one aspect I find very frustrating is its resource consumption. If this frustrates you as much as it does me, let’s break down the causes of this issue and see how to address it.”
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