Prometheus is consuming too much resources in OpenShift Container Platform 4

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-06-13T21:34:23+00:00 -

Issue

Prometheus memory in the openshift-monitoring namespace keeps growing.
As the cluster grows, Prometheus keeps using more and more memory.
Is there a way to calculate if the memory usage of Prometheus is correct and normal?

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