Author: @roystchiang Reviewers: Date: August 2022 Status: Proposed Timeseries Partitioning in Compactor Introduction The compactor is a crucial component in Cortex responsible for deduplication of replicated data, and merging blocks across multiple time intervals together. This proposal will not go into great depth with why the compactor is necessary, but aims to focus on how to scale the compactor as a tenant grows within a Cortex cluster. Problem and Requirements Cortex introduced horizonta...
