This guide explains how to scale up and down ingesters. If you’re looking for how to run ingesters rolling updates, please refer to the dedicated guide._ Scaling up Adding more ingesters to a Cortex cluster is considered a safe operation. When a new ingester starts, it will register to the hash ring and the distributors will reshard received series accordingly. Ingesters that were previously receiving those series will see data stop arriving and will consider those series “idle”. If you...
