Prometheus timestamps are in int64 (signed) milliseconds. So the maximum number of data points per series is: 9,223,372,036,854,775,807
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:24 PM Stuart Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2023-03-27 14:10, Abdelouahab Khelifati wrote: > > I mean the maximum number of datapoints per time series, not the > > length of a specific value. > > Sorry that is what I was meaning. > > There will be loads of resource or performance limitations - such as not > being able to load the data for very long periods of time without huge > amounts of memory. However in the normal usage of scrapes around every > 30 seconds there are people who have multi-year storage retentions that > work successfully (so that would be around a million datapoints per > year). > > -- > Stuart Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/0f10e2d5aeb2ea7619846506fa81f1a4%40Jahingo.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CABbyFmpxXik1ZvjCkJAcXbh2tUa7xfAJ3A7_rrJh_8SvxosQsg%40mail.gmail.com.
