Hello Prometheus Community,
I’m encountering a memory usage issue with my Prometheus server, particularly during and after startup, and I’m hoping to get some insights on optimizing it. *Problem:* Upon startup, my Prometheus instance consumes a large amount of memory, primarily due to the WAL (Write-Ahead Log) replay. To address this, I enabled --enable-feature=memory-snapshot-on-shutdown, expecting it to reduce the startup memory spike by eliminating the need for full WAL replay. However, I’m still seeing the memory usage spike to around 5GB on startup. Once started, Prometheus continues to hold this high memory, without releasing it back to the system. Is there a recommended way to configure Prometheus to release memory post-startup? Are there additional configurations or optimizations for large WAL files or memory management that could help? Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you, BhanuPrakash. -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/99e6725f-f757-45f4-80a4-98c60e2b5063n%40googlegroups.com.
