Metric names are part of a time series's identity, so shouldn't include information unrelated to identity.
Reliable Insights
A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity
There's various ways Prometheus federation can be used. To ensure your monitoring is scalable and reliable, let's look at how to best use it.
A single Prometheus server can easily handle millions of time series. That's enough for a thousand servers with a thousand time series each scraped every 10 seconds. As your systems scale beyond that, Prometheus can scale too.
