[akbar501]

What is the scale out process with Prometheus? Is sharding/replication a manual setup process or is it automated? What's involved in scaling out?

[netingle]

There is an project we've just started: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C7yhMnb1x2sfeoe45f4mnnKC...

Hopefully have something to show for promcon.

[jrv]

Usually you start by some functional sharding (giving each team of services their own Prometheus servers), but also having per-datacenter Prometheus servers and then some hierarchical federation layer ontop of that. There's no built-in automatic horizontal scaling though (which would be going against the design goal of not having a clustered system, for reliability).

Some resources:

- Scaling in general: http://www.robustperception.io/scaling-and-federating-promet...

- Federation: https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/federation/

[bbrazil]

http://www.robustperception.io/scaling-and-federating-promet... explains it. Unless you're absolutely massive, it's fairly easy.