This page shares some tips and things to take in consideration when setting up a production Cortex cluster based on the blocks storage. Ingester Ensure a high number of max open file descriptors The ingester stores received series into per-tenant TSDB blocks. Both TSDB WAL, head and compacted blocks are composed by a relatively large number of files which gets loaded via mmap. This means that the ingester keeps file descriptors open for TSDB WAL segments, chunk files and compacted blocks whic...
