How to troubleshoot Prometheus remote write on RHOCP 4
Issue
- Prometheus remote_write is falling behind and metrics are arriving late at the remote endpoint.
- The lag between the newest sample ingested and the newest sample successfully sent continues to grow.
- Desired shard count does not increase despite visible lag.
- Samples are being dropped, retried, or failing to send to the remote endpoint.
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
- 4
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