Bug 1997034

Summary: Drop high cardinality cAdvisor metrics
Product: OpenShift Container Platform Reporter: Philip Gough <pgough>
Component: MonitoringAssignee: Philip Gough <pgough>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Junqi Zhao <juzhao>
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Version: 4.9CC: amuller, anpicker, aos-bugs, arajkuma, erooth
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Last Closed: 2021-10-18 17:48:10 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Philip Gough 2021-08-24 09:37:53 UTC
Description of problem:

To reduce the overall memory consumption of Prometheus, we can drop unused cAdvisor metrics with high cardinality.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

4.9


Additional info:

This can be verified by a before and after query: count({metrics_path="/metrics/cadvisor"})

Comment 1 Junqi Zhao 2021-08-30 08:49:53 UTC
tested with 4.9.0-0.nightly-2021-08-29-010334
with the fix, the count of the cadvisor metrics is less than that without the fix
count({metrics_path="/metrics/cadvisor"})
{} 46166

without the fix
count({metrics_path="/metrics/cadvisor"})
{} 56388

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2021-10-18 17:48:10 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.0 bug fix and security update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3759