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Finding top talkers

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Finding top talkers

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- [Instructor] In many cases, we have a huge amount of data to look at within a Prometheus environment. And, it's often useful to be able to start filtering and tuning in to the specific subset of resources. We've looked at a couple of different ways of doing this. In this case, we're gonna do ls here to get the directory, then we're gonna look at more O4_O2. More O4 tab will get us the file. We're gonna start out with a metric that actually has a huge number of resources in our environment. So, I'm gonna grab this particular metric here, by double clicking on it and then I'm gonna copy this data. Then, we're gonna jump back into our Prometheus dashboard. We're gonna paste this guy in here. So, this expression gets us the total number of requests that the system is seeing, and you can see that we're talking about, now, millions of entries into the system. Also, a huge number of resources within the graph. So, if we pop back into the console view, we can see that are just very large…

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