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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Now Supports 1.5 Billion Metrics and 200,000 Rules per Workspace!

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Hi, it's me! Today I found a monitoring update with some seriously big numbers in it, so let me tell you about it!

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What was announced?

According to AWS What's New, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metric time series and up to 200,000 total recording and alerting rules per workspace. You can also create many workspaces per account, which lets you store and analyze billions of Prometheus metrics across your whole organization.

The story so far

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed service built for monitoring and alerting on operational metrics at scale. Until now, each workspace had a lower limit on active metrics and rules, so for large-scale environments where monitoring targets kept growing, workloads bigger than that limit had to be split across multiple workspaces. The source doesn't mention the exact previous limit, but this update clearly raises the ceiling per workspace by a lot.

What changes

With support for up to 1.5 billion active metrics and 200,000 rules in a single workspace, large containerized environments and microservice setups that previously needed multiple workspaces can now consolidate into one. That means less overhead managing dashboards and alerts across workspace boundaries, which should simplify operations for SRE and platform teams. You can still create multiple workspaces per account if you want, so organizations can keep scaling to billions of metrics across the whole account too.

Dive Deep

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service with these characteristics:

  • It automatically scales ingestion and storage for high-cardinality workloads across containerized, serverless, and hybrid environments
  • It integrates with AWS security services for fast, secure access to your data
  • Because it's Prometheus-compatible, you can keep using your existing PromQL queries and alerting rules

Getting started is simple:

  • Create an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace
  • If you need even higher limits than the new defaults, file a service limit increase request through AWS Support Center or AWS Service Quotas

Wrap-up

  • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metrics and up to 200,000 rules per workspace
  • Large workloads that used to require splitting across multiple workspaces can now be consolidated into one
  • The core features, like auto-scaling and AWS security integration, stay the same, but the scale ceiling per workspace just got a lot higher
  • This one's for SRE and platform teams running large containerized or microservice-based monitoring setups!

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