More buckets cost more to store and process, but thankfully there is now Prometheus "native histograms", which give you high resolution for less cost.
https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/#native-histograms https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon23emea/presentation/rabenstein This is already supported by the smokeping_prober, but you may need to enable it in Prometheus. On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:35 PM Alexander Wilke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would Like to know If there are any technical disadvantages or > limitations If I use a high(er) amount of buckets? > > And is there a possibility to Aggregate buckets later in PromQL/Grafana? > My Idea was so unsere more buckets to have detailed View in latencies If I > want to investigate Something specific in a specific time frame. > > But as for Overview i do Not need all the fine grained bucket steps. > > For time range i can use rate. > But is there a possibility to lets say Aggregate buckets > > 0.5-1.0s > 1.0-2.0s > 2.0-3.0s > > To one bucket 0.5-3.0s > > TL;DR. > Any technical limitations or disadvantages with Higher amount of buckets > How to Aggregate buckets for Overview but expand it for detailed Analysis > If needed? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" 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-users/345a4c69-11cb-4e72-8af8-22dab5dc23e0n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/345a4c69-11cb-4e72-8af8-22dab5dc23e0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" 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-users/CABbyFmpxqLGoKBO%3DdOCwQ0%3DcPZUc5g%2BZuOWTaum2iB5p7DLMEg%40mail.gmail.com.
