Prometheus as a Time Series Database
summary
An engineer from Lamoda explains using Prometheus as a time-series database for monitoring: they collect millions of metrics and find Prometheus handles heavy write load well, but read (query) load is more challenging. The talk covers read-performance issues and shares Lamoda’s operational experience, including some unsuccessful approaches they tried.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:45Choosing Prometheus as TSDB
- 10:20How Prometheus stores data
- 17:48Data compression in Prometheus
- 22:02Memory and disk usage
- 27:43Indexes and impact
- 31:18Implementation results and business impact
- 39:10Why not custom solution
- 45:04Q&A
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