Deleting all timeseries

[Venkata Bhagavatula]

Hi All,

I am using prometheus version 2.11.1. 

I was trying to delete all the timeseries from the disk, Using the  admin rest api for deleting the timeseries. Following is what i executed:

curl  -XPOST   -g 'http://localhost:9090/api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_series?match[]={__name__=~".+"}'

followed by

curl  -XPOST  'http://localhost:9090/api/v1/admin/tsdb/clean_tombstones'

As mentioned in the document, 204 is returned for both curl commands.

I was expecting that all the timeseries would be deleted from the disk. But this is not the case.

i could see that still timeseries data is present.

Then i tried deleting a particular metric and i could see that data is deleted. So Can we delete all the timeseries from the disk? using the above Rest API.

Thanks n Regards,

Chalapathi.

[Julius Volz]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:19 AM Venkata Bhagavatula <venkat...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I am using prometheus version 2.11.1. 

I was trying to delete all the timeseries from the disk, Using the  admin rest api for deleting the timeseries. Following is what i executed:

curl  -XPOST   -g 'http://localhost:9090/api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_series?match[]={__name__=~".+"}'

Could it be that here you need to escape the "+" character as "%2B" in the query string? Otherwise it would become a space character.

 

followed by

curl  -XPOST  'http://localhost:9090/api/v1/admin/tsdb/clean_tombstones'

As mentioned in the document, 204 is returned for both curl commands.

I was expecting that all the timeseries would be deleted from the disk. But this is not the case.

i could see that still timeseries data is present.

Then i tried deleting a particular metric and i could see that data is deleted. So Can we delete all the timeseries from the disk? using the above Rest API.

Thanks n Regards,

Chalapathi.

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[Venkata Bhagavatula]

Hi  Julius,

I tried replacing + as "%2B", but with no luck.  

Thanks n Regards,

Chalapathi.