Prometheus azure SD throttling Azure API limit

[Kirti Ranjan Parida]

Hello everyone 

I have a question regarding azure_sd_configs. My job is discovering 1600 targets(refresh_interval=5mins) out of which only 88 are active targets and others are dropped by prometheus relabelling. However We are hitting compute/network API limit just because of this and other application are not able to make API calls

• Does Prometheus makes describe call to all the instances/NIC’s  that it discovers ?
• Any other way to restrict the number of API calls since azure_sd_configs does not support filter:  ?

Any other workaround ? 

[Kirti Ranjan Parida]

Can someone check on this please