Hello everyone, We have Prometheus set up inside Kubernetes clusters. An istio-prometheus mostly scrapes Istio components and Envoy proxies and does a few aggregations. A main-prometheus scrapes services and also scrapes istio-prometheus through federation. Often, we have events similar to the on…

Prometheus CPU and Memory spikes

mccricardo August 2, 2022, 10:10am 2

On a high level, our setup looks similiar to the one below.
prometheus

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