I am trying to set up Prometheus for monitoring. How can I scale Prometheus to handle 1000 machines and maintain data for 1 year. Also i want to setup HA for my prometheus.

[deep7710]

Proposal

Use case. Why is this important?

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

Bug Report

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• System information:

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• Prometheus version:

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• Alertmanager version:

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• Prometheus configuration file:

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• Alertmanager configuration file:

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[simonpasquier]

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