Current state of the prometheus/test-infra

[geekodour]

Apologies for being away from the project, was away from software development and open source in general for a while but getting back at things now.

Saw a lot of nice updates in recent months to the repo from @saketjajoo and @bwplotka :) . How is prometheus/prometheus using the test-infra now? did we move from GCP to AWS?

What is the current direction of the repo?

cc: @bwplotka @saketjajoo @roidelapluie

[bwplotka]

Wow! Thanks for being here!

Wanna jump on #prometheus-dev or so on Slack channel to talk?

Generally we would love:

• Better load generation prombench: Uneven Load generation for query_range #629
• Generating native histogram load Create native histograms load in Prombench runs #594
• Parca improvements Extend Parca retention #630
• And probably the most important -- remote write benchmark: Exercise Remote Write as part of Prombench #249 -- for this it would epic to think about exercising agent mode too e.g. via prombench flag or so.

Probably more in the issues (: Let us know how we can help for you to have more time for it (e.g. mentorship etc are potential option).

Not sure what about other stuff in this repo. E.g funcbench, I think we don't use it, but in Thanos we do have something similar, with simple scripts https://github.com/thanos-io/promql-engine/blob/main/.github/workflows/benchmark.yaml

From other exciting stuff my team in Google now use prombench too (!). We have our fork as we had to use Cloud Build vs GH Action (secret compliance) and we focus our tests on exporting data not querying, but we reuse and depend on a lot, allowing us to help here from time to time (: We also killed commentMonitor service as you can do it via CI job these days.

[bwplotka]

Next time, I think it might be better to ask this on Slack e.g. started new channel #prombench-dev https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C07TT6DTQ02