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The issue says Prometheus applies the same retention time to all metrics, so less important metrics take up storage as long as critical ones. It asks for retention per metric, namespace or label, set in the config file or through the API. A commenter pointed to earlier discussion and suggested that dropping some series during compaction would be simpler. In 2026 a contributor traced the compaction path and asked whether expired series should be dropped whole or trimmed.
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