Opening storage failed lock DB directory: resource temporarily unavailable

[Trivikramreddy]

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“Nice to have” is not a good use case. :)

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[Trivikramreddy]

I'm new to prometheus. This is the error i see in the logs. prometheus is running fine but want to know what does it mean by that error. Any help on this is appreciated. Thanks !!

[simonpasquier]

It means that Prometheus can't lock access to the data directory. Either

• Prometheus doesn't permissions to write this directory.
• Or another process is running in parallel and already acquired the lock.
• Or you're using a file system (such as NFS) which isn't fully supported by Prometheus.

I'm closing it for now. If you have further questions, please use our user mailing list, which you can also search.