Prometheus pods cause memory pressure on OpenShift 4 nodes
Issue
- Different OpenShift 4 clusters showing prometheus-k8s pods using too much memory
- The OpenShift Nodes (Infra Nodes) that run these pods end up in a MemoryPressure state
- Temporary increasing the OpenShift Nodes capacity (RAM) and reduce the Prometheus retention (from 15gg to 7gg to even 3gg) just delay the issue
- Temporary increasing storage capacity just delay the issue as well
Environment
- RedHat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x
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