Lightning Talk: Troubleshoot Compactor Backlog with Ease - Ben Ye, ByteDance
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2022-05-19

Lightning Talk: Troubleshoot Compactor Backlog with Ease - Ben Ye, ByteDance

This talk will talk about a common problem if you are running Thanos and Cortex on large scales: compactor backlog. As a core component, it is important to make sure that the compactors are running smoothly and well scaled. In this talk, Ben Ye will explain why compactor backlog happens and how to prevent it from happening. He will walk through ways to identify and troubleshoot it using existing metrics and tools.