Exploring Prometheus Federation and Remote Storage

Introduction:

Due to its robust features and adaptability, Prometheus has become a well-liked open-source solution in the realm of monitoring and observability. Prometheus makes it possible to gather, store, and query time-series data, giving businesses useful insights on the functionality and state of their systems. Federation and Remote Storage are two crucial elements that come into play to further improve Prometheus’s capabilities. We will explore the ideas of Prometheus Federation and Remote Storage in this blog post, as well as how the addition of Mimir improves the monitoring environment.

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Prometheus Federation:

A method called Prometheus Federation enables various Prometheus servers to cooperate in a hierarchical framework. A unified view of your whole infrastructure can be created by combining and centralizing monitoring data from several Prometheus instances using Federation. This is especially helpful in large-scale deployments with numerous data centers or systems that are geographically dispersed.

The way federation works is through a “pull” paradigm in which a central Prometheus server, called the…