How does Prometheus store its time series data and what are the current recommendations for long term retention on a budget friendly cloud instance?
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How does Prometheus store its time series data and what are the current recommendations for long term retention on a budget friendly cloud instance?
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Prometheus long term storage recommendations 2026 VictoriaMetrics Thanos Mimir budget self hostedGoogle ↗
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Prometheus documentation storage TSDB retention size blocks WAL official docsGoogle ↗
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VictoriaMetrics single-node long-term storage object storage cost documentation Prometheus remote writeGoogle ↗
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Thanos architecture object storage sidecar compact store gateway official documentationGoogle ↗
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ChatGPT4 real searches · gpt-6
Prometheus long term storage recommendations 2026 VictoriaMetrics Thanos Mimir budget self hosted Google ↗
Prometheus documentation storage TSDB retention size blocks WAL official docs Google ↗
VictoriaMetrics single-node long-term storage object storage cost documentation Prometheus remote write Google ↗
Thanos architecture object storage sidecar compact store gateway official documentation Google ↗
- Storage · prometheus.io
- Guides: Understand Your Setup Size · docs.victoriametrics.com
- Thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities · thanos.io
- Grafana Mimir OSS · grafana.com
- Prometheus long-term storage: revisit Thanos, Mimir and VictoriaMetrics before you scale · revisit.tech
- VictoriaMetrics docs · docs.victoriametrics.com
- Capacity planning · docs.victoriametrics.com
- Thanos documentation · thanos.io
- Mimir documentation · grafana.com
Queries
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| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
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Prometheus long term storage recommendations 2026 VictoriaMetrics Thanos Mimir budget self hosted OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Prometheus documentation storage TSDB retention size blocks WAL official docs OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
VictoriaMetrics single-node long-term storage object storage cost documentation Prometheus remote write OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Thanos architecture object storage sidecar compact store gateway official documentation OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 |