From 390e260bd9899936562ea8206eafb11a16ddd8a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Kochie Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 17:38:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve wording of remote write documentation. (#3817) Reduce the use of the term `long-term`, when what we're really talking about is remote clustered storage for increased capacity and durability. Signed-off-by: Ben Kochie --- docs/storage.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/storage.md b/docs/storage.md index 21e46db4f..d0f6e6eaa 100644 --- a/docs/storage.md +++ b/docs/storage.md @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ If your local storage becomes corrupted for whatever reason, your best bet is to ## Remote storage integrations -As outlined above, Prometheus's local storage is limited in its scalability and durability. Instead of trying to solve long-term storage in Prometheus itself, Prometheus has a set of interfaces that allow integrating with remote long-term storage systems. +Prometheus's local storage is limited by single nodes in its scalability and durability. Instead of trying to solve clustered storage in Prometheus itself, Prometheus has a set of interfaces that allow integrating with remote storage systems. ### Overview @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Prometheus integrates with remote storage systems in two ways: ![Remote read and write architecture](images/remote_integrations.png) -The read and write protocols both use a snappy-compressed protocol buffer encoding over HTTP. The protocols are not considered as stable APIs yet and may change to use gRPC over HTTP/2 in the future, when all hops between Prometheus and the long-term storage can safely be assumed to support HTTP/2. +The read and write protocols both use a snappy-compressed protocol buffer encoding over HTTP. The protocols are not considered as stable APIs yet and may change to use gRPC over HTTP/2 in the future, when all hops between Prometheus and the remote storage can safely be assumed to support HTTP/2. For details on configuring remote storage integrations in Prometheus, see the [remote write](configuration/configuration.md#remote_write) and [remote read](configuration/configuration.md#remote_read) sections of the Prometheus configuration documentation.