diff --git a/docs/introduction/faq.md b/docs/introduction/faq.md index fa9c5f168..ee7e106eb 100644 --- a/docs/introduction/faq.md +++ b/docs/introduction/faq.md @@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ There are always trade-offs to make when running services, and Prometheus values ### Can Prometheus be made highly available? Yes, run identical Prometheus servers on two or more separate machines. + +Systems like [Thanos](https://thanos.io) can deduplicate the data. Many of the [external systems](/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage) that support [remote write](/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#remote_write) can also deduplicate the data. + Identical alerts will be deduplicated by the [Alertmanager](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager). -Alertmanager supports [high availability](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager#high-availability) by interconnecting multiple Alertmanager instances to build an Alertmanager cluster. Instances of a cluster communicate using a gossip protocol managed via [HashiCorp's Memberlist](https://github.com/hashicorp/memberlist) library. +Alertmanager supports [high availability](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager#high-availability) by interconnecting multiple Alertmanager instances to build an Alertmanager cluster. ### I was told Prometheus “doesn't scale”.