# some errors are ouccured in prometheus log

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/some-errors-are-ouccured-in-prometheus-log/6076>\
**Category:** PMM 1.x\
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/some-errors-are-ouccured-in-prometheus-log/6076 "2017-12-12T03:36:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![bckim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/67e7ee/32.png) [@bckim](https://forums.percona.com/u/bckim)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/some-errors-are-ouccured-in-prometheus-log/6076/1 "2017-12-12T03:36:05Z")

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hi, all

I am using prometheus, but there are some error ouccured in prometheus log.

– error log

time=“2017-12-12T08:19:16Z” level=warning msg=“Scrape health sample discarded” error=“sample timestamp out of order” sample=up{instance=“malldb25”, job=“mysql”} =\> 1 @[1234] source=“scrape.go:587”  
time=“2017-12-12T08:19:16Z” level=warning msg=“Scrape duration sample discarded” error=“sample timestamp out of order” sample=scrape\_duration\_seconds{instance=“malldb25”, job=“mysql”} =\> 4.728769441 @[1234] source=“scrape.go:590”  
time=“2017-12-12T08:19:16Z” level=warning msg=“Scrape sample count sample discarded” error=“sample timestamp out of order” sample=scrape\_duration\_seconds{instance=“malldb25”, job=“mysql”} =\> 4.728769441 @[1234] source=“scrape.go:593”  
time=“2017-12-12T08:19:16Z” level=warning msg=“Scrape sample count post-relabeling sample discarded” error=“sample timestamp out of order” sample=scrape\_duration\_seconds{instance=“malldb25”, job=“mysql”} =\> 4.728769441 @[1234] source=“scrape.go:596”

too many logs are storing now.

please let me know why these errors are ouccured.

– docker run command

docker run -d   
-p 80:80   
-e METRICS\_MEMORY=48318382080 -e METRICS\_RETENTION=2160h -e QUERIES\_RETENTION=2160h -e METRICS\_RESOLUTION=5s   
–volumes-from pmm-data   
–name pmm-server   
–restart always   
percona/pmm-server:latest

– prometheus.yml

# Managed by pmm-managed. DO NOT EDIT.

* * *

global:  
scrape\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
evaluation\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_configs:

- job\_name: prometheus  
scrape\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
metrics\_path: /prometheus/metrics  
scheme: http  
static\_configs:
- targets:
- localhost:9090  
labels:  
instance: prometheus
- job\_name: linux  
scrape\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
metrics\_path: /metrics  
scheme: http  
static\_configs:
- targets:
- localhost:9100  
labels:  
instance: pmm-server  
consul\_sd\_configs:
- server: localhost:8500  
datacenter: dc1  
tag\_separator: ‘,’  
scheme: http  
services:
- linux:metrics  
basic\_auth:  
username: pmm  
password: pmm  
tls\_config:  
insecure\_skip\_verify: true  
relabel\_configs:
- source\_labels: [\__meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: .\*,alias_([-\w:.]+),.\*  
target\_label: instance  
replacement: $1  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\_\_meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: ._,scheme\_https,._  
target\_label: **scheme**  
replacement: https  
action: replace
- job\_name: proxysql  
scrape\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
metrics\_path: /metrics  
scheme: http  
consul\_sd\_configs:
- server: localhost:8500  
datacenter: dc1  
tag\_separator: ‘,’  
scheme: http  
services:
- proxysql:metrics  
basic\_auth:  
username: pmm  
password: pmm  
tls\_config:  
insecure\_skip\_verify: true  
relabel\_configs:
- source\_labels: [\__meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: .\*,alias_([-\w:.]+),.\*  
target\_label: instance  
replacement: $1  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\_\_meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: ._,scheme\_https,._  
target\_label: **scheme**  
replacement: https  
action: replace
- job\_name: mongodb  
scrape\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
metrics\_path: /metrics  
scheme: http  
consul\_sd\_configs:
- server: localhost:8500  
datacenter: dc1  
tag\_separator: ‘,’  
scheme: http  
services:
- mongodb:metrics  
basic\_auth:  
username: pmm  
password: pmm  
tls\_config:  
insecure\_skip\_verify: true  
relabel\_configs:
- source\_labels: [\__meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: .\*,alias_([-\w:.]+),.\*  
target\_label: instance  
replacement: $1  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\_\_meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: ._,scheme\_https,._  
target\_label: **scheme**  
replacement: https  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\__meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: .\*,cluster_([-\w:.]+),.\*  
target\_label: cluster  
replacement: $1  
action: replace
- job\_name: mysql-hr  
scrape\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
metrics\_path: /metrics-hr  
scheme: http  
consul\_sd\_configs:
- server: localhost:8500  
datacenter: dc1  
tag\_separator: ‘,’  
scheme: http  
services:
- mysql:metrics  
basic\_auth:  
username: pmm  
password: pmm  
tls\_config:  
insecure\_skip\_verify: true  
relabel\_configs:
- separator: ;  
regex: (.\*)  
target\_label: job  
replacement: mysql  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\__meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: .\*,alias_([-\w:.]+),.\*  
target\_label: instance  
replacement: $1  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\_\_meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: ._,scheme\_https,._  
target\_label: **scheme**  
replacement: https  
action: replace
- job\_name: mysql-mr  
scrape\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
metrics\_path: /metrics-mr  
scheme: http  
consul\_sd\_configs:
- server: localhost:8500  
datacenter: dc1  
tag\_separator: ‘,’  
scheme: http  
services:
- mysql:metrics  
basic\_auth:  
username: pmm  
password: pmm  
tls\_config:  
insecure\_skip\_verify: true  
relabel\_configs:
- separator: ;  
regex: (.\*)  
target\_label: job  
replacement: mysql  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\__meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: .\*,alias_([-\w:.]+),.\*  
target\_label: instance  
replacement: $1  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\_\_meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: ._,scheme\_https,._  
target\_label: **scheme**  
replacement: https  
action: replace
- job\_name: mysql-lr  
scrape\_interval: 1m  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
metrics\_path: /metrics-lr  
scheme: http  
consul\_sd\_configs:
- server: localhost:8500  
datacenter: dc1  
tag\_separator: ‘,’  
scheme: http  
services:
- mysql:metrics  
basic\_auth:  
username: pmm  
password: pmm  
tls\_config:  
insecure\_skip\_verify: true  
relabel\_configs:
- separator: ;  
regex: (.\*)  
target\_label: job  
replacement: mysql  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\__meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: .\*,alias_([-\w:.]+),.\*  
target\_label: instance  
replacement: $1  
action: replace
- source\_labels: [\_\_meta\_consul\_tags]  
separator: ;  
regex: ._,scheme\_https,._  
target\_label: **scheme**  
replacement: https  
action: replace
- job\_name: rds-mysql-hr  
scrape\_interval: 1s  
scrape\_timeout: 1s  
metrics\_path: /metrics-hr  
relabel\_configs:
- target\_label: job  
replacement: mysql
- job\_name: rds-mysql-mr  
scrape\_interval: 5s  
scrape\_timeout: 1s  
metrics\_path: /metrics-mr  
relabel\_configs:
- target\_label: job  
replacement: mysql
- job\_name: rds-mysql-lr  
scrape\_interval: 1m  
scrape\_timeout: 5s  
metrics\_path: /metrics-lr  
relabel\_configs:
- target\_label: job  
replacement: mysql

– top result

top - 18:05:17 up 22 days, 1:04, 1 user, load average: 0.68, 1.16, 1.25  
Tasks: 444 total, 1 running, 443 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie  
%Cpu(s): 6.9 us, 0.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 92.9 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st  
KiB Mem : 65692272 total, 33868000 free, 2573836 used, 29250436 buff/cache  
KiB Swap: 8191996 total, 8164396 free, 27600 used. 62573256 avail Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND  
29289 1000 20 0 5564340 1.605g 12892 S 220.2 2.6 94:18.48 prometheus  
29520 1000 20 0 4151424 43404 6504 S 2.3 0.1 0:30.39 percona-qan-api  
29299 root 20 0 2427432 30316 5048 S 1.3 0.0 0:20.82 node\_exporter  
5813 root 20 0 148464 2452 1464 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.03 top  
29283 polkitd 20 0 10.344g 115144 6864 S 0.7 0.2 0:17.54 mysqld

thanks

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**Author:** ![Peter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/peter/32/2_2.png) [@Peter](https://forums.percona.com/u/Peter)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/some-errors-are-ouccured-in-prometheus-log/6076/2 "2017-12-24T20:41:05Z")

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Unless excessive you should not be concerned. “Prometheus” Dashboard has a graph to show you how many samples are being discarded every second
