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Sample configuration for AWS EC2 handling 250k entities and 100k metrics/sec (large) with NGINX Ingress controller
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# Example ITRS Analytics configuration for AWS EC2 handling ~1,000,000 entities, ~4,000,000 time series,
# ~100,000 datapoints/sec (tested with approximately 81,000 metrics/sec, 20,000 logs/sec, 200 signals/sec, 200 audit events/sec);
# and ~20,000 span/sec (pre-sampling).
# Actual ingestion composition may vary by deployment.
#
# NODE REQUIREMENTS:
# Total capacity needed: ~91 cores / ~205 GiB requests ( ~168 cores / ~236 GiB limits)
# These totals include optional Linkerd sidecar resources
# ClickHouse nodes:
# - Total capacity needed: 52 cores / 92 GiB (requests = limits)
# - Minimum per node: 32 cores / 64 GiB
# - Example: (2) m5.8xlarge (32 cores / 128GiB) or equivalent
# - Extra node memory benefits ClickHouse query performance via OS page cache
# Non-ClickHouse nodes:
# - Total capacity needed: ~39 cores / ~113 GiB requests (~110 cores / ~144 GiB limits)
# - Minimum per node: 8 cores / 16 GiB
# - Example: (6) c5.4xlarge (16 cores / 32GiB) or equivalent
#
# HA CONFIGURATION NOTE:
# This configuration provides seamless HA for service layer workloads (2 replicas minimum for stateless services).
#
# ClickHouse workloads (chmetrics, chplatform, chlogs, chtraces) each run 2 replicas in an active-active
# configuration — both replicas serve reads and writes simultaneously. There is no primary/standby distinction.
# Data is replicated asynchronously between replicas via ReplicatedMergeTree using ClickHouse Keeper (chkeeper).
#
# With 2 replicas, losing one replica has no immediate impact — reads and writes continue on the surviving
# replica without failover. The failed replica re-syncs automatically when it restarts (~2-5 minutes depending
# on data volume accumulated during the outage).
#
# ClickHouse Keeper (chkeeper) runs as a 3-node consensus cluster. Losing 1 of 3 keepers maintains quorum
# and has no impact on reads or writes. Losing 2 of 3 keepers breaks quorum, blocking replication and
# distributed DDL but NOT local reads or writes on individual ClickHouse nodes.
#
# There is no benefit to adding a 3rd ClickHouse replica purely for HA —
# 2 replicas already provide full read/write availability during single-node failure.
#
# DISK REQUIREMENTS:
# Estimated disk requirements based on default retention and the ingestion rate above
# (actual size will vary depending on the shape of the data being ingested).
# - Kafka broker: 400 GiB for each replica (x3)
# - Kafka controller: 10 GiB for each replica (x3)
# - Postgres: 3 GiB for each replica (x2)
# - ClickHouse Keeper: 2 GiB for each replica (x3)
# - ClickHouse Platform: 200 GiB for each replica (x2)
# - ClickHouse Metrics: 4 TiB for each replica (x2)
# - ClickHouse Logs: 1 TiB for each replica (x2)
# - ClickHouse Traces: 150 GiB for each replica (x2)
# - etcd: 16 GiB for each replica (x3)
#
# The configuration references a default storage class named `gp3` which uses EBS gp3 volumes. This storage class should
# be configured with the default minimum gp3 settings of 3000 IOPS and 125 MiB/s throughput.
#
# The configuration also references a storage class named `gp3-clickhouse` which uses EBS gp3 volumes, but with
# higher provisioned performance for ClickHouse disks. This storage class should be configured with 3000 IOPS and
# 300 MiB/s throughput.
#
# You can create these classes or change the config to use classes of your own, but they should be similar in performance.
#
# This configuration is based upon a certain number of IAX entities, average metrics per entity, and
# average metrics collection interval. The following function can be used to figure out what type of load to expect:
#
# metrics/sec = (IAX entities * metrics/entity) / average metrics collection interval
#
# In this example configuration, we have the following:
#
# 100,000 metrics/sec = (1,000,000 IAX entities * 1 metrics/entity) / 10 seconds average metrics collection interval
#
# NOTE: Ingestion, storage, and retrieval of OpenTelemetry spans is a beta feature.
#
# Additionally, the configuration is based upon a certain number of OpenTelemetry spans per second that are sampled
# based upon the following rules:
# - Error traces are always sampled
# - Target sampling probability per endpoint (corresponds to the name of the root span) is 0.01
# - Target sampling rate / second / endpoint (corresponds to the name of the root span) is 0.5
# - Root span duration outlier quantile is 0.95. The durations of all root spans are tracked and used to make guesses about
# abnormally long spans
#
# UPGRADE NOTE: Timescale and Loki are no longer required for fresh installs (v2.18+).
# If upgrading from a pre-2.18 deployment, these workloads must remain and require additional resources:
# - Timescale: additional resource ~4 cores / ~32 GiB (requests = limits)
# - Loki: additional resource requests ~500m / ~1 GiB, with limits of ~1 core / ~8 GiB
# Additional disk requirements (sizes will vary based on existing deployment):
# - Timescale:
# - 4 x timeseries data disks for each replica (x2)
# - 1 x data disk for each replica (x2)
# - 1 x WAL disk for each replica (x2)
# - Loki: 1 x data disk
#
# Upgrade node requirements:
# Pre-2.18 deployments include 2 dedicated Timescale nodes (tainted and labeled as `timescale-nodes`).
# There are two supported approaches for provisioning ClickHouse nodes during upgrade.
# For detailed steps, refer to the upgrade documentation.
#
# Option 1 — Add new ClickHouse nodes:
# Provision 2 additional ClickHouse nodes (tainted and labeled as `clickhouse-nodes`),
# e.g. (2) m5.8xlarge (32 cores / 128 GiB).
# Total during upgrade: (6) non-ClickHouse + (2) Timescale + (2) ClickHouse = 10 nodes
# After data migration to ClickHouse is complete, the 2 Timescale nodes can be removed (8 nodes remain).
#
# Option 2 — Reuse existing Timescale nodes:
# Re-label and re-taint the 2 existing Timescale nodes as `clickhouse-nodes`, and relocate
# Timescale workloads to the general (non-ClickHouse) node pool for the duration of the migration.
# This avoids provisioning additional nodes.
# Total during upgrade: (6) non-ClickHouse (including Timescale workloads) + (2) ClickHouse = 8 nodes
# After data migration to ClickHouse is complete, Timescale and Loki are removed automatically,
# freeing resources on the general nodes (8 nodes remain).
#
# If upgrading from a pre-2.18 deployment, uncomment the timescale and loki section at the bottom of this file
# and include additional resources and disks listed under "UPGRADE NOTE" above.
#
defaultStorageClass: "gp3"
apps:
externalHostname: "iax.mydomain.internal"
ingress:
className: "nginx"
ingestion:
externalHostname: "iax-ingestion.mydomain.internal"
jvmOpts: "-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=80"
replicas: 2
ingress:
className: "nginx"
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: "GRPC"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: "true"
usePathRegex: true
producerProperties:
buffer.memory: 67108864
threadPoolSize: 10
queueCapacity: 32
resources:
requests:
memory: "1Gi"
cpu: "500m"
limits:
memory: "2Gi"
cpu: "2"
traces:
jvmOpts: "-XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=500M -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=75"
resources:
requests:
memory: "3Gi"
cpu: "1"
limits:
memory: "5Gi"
cpu: "3"
sampler:
expectedSpanRate: 30000
producerProperties:
buffer.memory: 67108864
iam:
keycloak:
replicas: 2
ingress:
className: "nginx"
kafka:
replicas: 3
diskSize: "400Gi"
resources:
requests:
memory: "12Gi"
cpu: "3"
limits:
memory: "12Gi"
cpu: "5"
controller:
replicas: 3
sinkd:
metrics:
jvmOpts: "-XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=200M"
replicas: 4
consumerProperties:
fetch.max.bytes: 20971520
fetch.max.wait.ms: 250
fetch.min.bytes: 5242880
max.partition.fetch.bytes: 5242880
max.poll.records: 200000
receive.buffer.bytes: 131072
resources:
requests:
memory: "1280Mi"
cpu: "500m"
limits:
memory: "2500Mi"
cpu: "1500m"
entities:
resources:
requests:
memory: "512Mi"
limits:
memory: "1500Mi"
signals:
consumerProperties:
max.partition.fetch.bytes: 1048576
traces:
consumerProperties:
max.poll.records: 20000
resources:
requests:
memory: "756Mi"
cpu: "250m"
limits:
memory: "1800Mi"
cpu: "1"
logs:
jvmOpts: "-XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=120M"
consumerProperties:
fetch.max.bytes: 20971520
fetch.max.wait.ms: 1000
fetch.min.bytes: 5242880
max.partition.fetch.bytes: 5242880
max.poll.records: 100000
resources:
limits:
cpu: "1"
memory: "1200Mi"
requests:
cpu: "250m"
memory: "750Mi"
platformd:
replicas: 2
resources:
requests:
memory: "1536Mi"
cpu: "1500m"
limits:
memory: "2Gi"
cpu: "2500m"
dpd:
replicas: 2
jvmOpts: "-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=75"
secondLevelEntityCacheHeapPercent: 35
entityCache:
inMemoryCacheSizeMb: 512
writeBuffers: 12
writeBufferSizeMb: 16
hazelcast:
jetIdleCooperativeMinMicroSeconds: 500
jetIdleCooperativeMaxMicroSeconds: 1000
jetIdleNonCooperativeMinMicroSeconds: 500
jetIdleNonCooperativeMaxMicroSeconds: 1000
consumerProperties:
max.poll.records: 10000
fetch.min.bytes: 524288
metricsMultiplexer:
maxFilterResultCacheSize: 2000000
maxConcurrentOps: 1000
resources:
requests:
memory: "6Gi"
cpu: "2"
limits:
memory: "8Gi"
cpu: "4"
entityStream:
intermediate:
jvmOpts: "-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=60"
consumerProperties:
max.partition.fetch.bytes: 2097152
max.poll.records: 100000
producerProperties:
buffer.memory: 67108864
streamProperties:
num.stream.threads: 2
storedEntitiesCacheSize: 12500
replicas: 4
resources:
requests:
memory: "3Gi"
cpu: "1"
limits:
memory: "4Gi"
cpu: "2"
rocksdb:
memoryMib: 300
final:
jvmOpts: "-XX:InitialRAMPercentage=40 -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=60"
consumerProperties:
max.partition.fetch.bytes: 1048576
producerProperties:
buffer.memory: 67108864
replicas: 4
storedEntitiesCacheSize: 10000
resources:
requests:
memory: "1536Mi"
cpu: "1"
limits:
memory: "2560Mi"
cpu: "2"
signalsStream:
consumerProperties:
max.partition.fetch.bytes: 1048576
resources:
requests:
memory: "830Mi"
cpu: "150m"
limits:
memory: "1800Mi"
cpu: "1200m"
etcd:
diskSize: "16Gi"
replicas: 3
licenced:
replicas: 2
platformStatusd:
resources:
limits:
memory: "800Mi"
clickhouse:
traces:
replicas: 2
diskSize: "150Gi"
storageClass: "gp3-clickhouse"
resources:
limits:
cpu: "3"
memory: "10Gi"
requests:
cpu: "3"
memory: "10Gi"
nodeSelector:
instancegroup: clickhouse-nodes
tolerations:
- key: dedicated
operator: Equal
value: clickhouse-nodes
effect: NoSchedule
metrics:
replicas: 2
diskSize: "1Ti"
diskCount: 4
storageClass: "gp3-clickhouse"
resources:
limits:
cpu: "16"
memory: "16Gi"
requests:
cpu: "16"
memory: "16Gi"
nodeSelector:
instancegroup: clickhouse-nodes
tolerations:
# must match the tainted ClickHouse nodes setting
- key: dedicated
operator: Equal
value: clickhouse-nodes
effect: NoSchedule
platform:
replicas: 2
diskSize: "200Gi"
storageClass: "gp3-clickhouse"
resources:
limits:
cpu: "3"
memory: "8Gi"
requests:
cpu: "3"
memory: "8Gi"
nodeSelector:
instancegroup: clickhouse-nodes
tolerations:
# must match the tainted ClickHouse nodes setting
- key: dedicated
operator: Equal
value: clickhouse-nodes
effect: NoSchedule
logs:
replicas: 2
diskSize: "1Ti"
storageClass: "gp3-clickhouse"
resources:
limits:
cpu: "4"
memory: "12Gi"
requests:
cpu: "4"
memory: "12Gi"
nodeSelector:
instancegroup: clickhouse-nodes
tolerations:
# must match the tainted ClickHouse nodes setting
- key: dedicated
operator: Equal
value: clickhouse-nodes
effect: NoSchedule
keeper:
replicas: 3
postgres:
clusterSize: 2
kvStore:
replicas: 2
resources:
limits:
memory: "900Mi"
requests:
memory: "600Mi"
statusMetricsStream:
resources:
limits:
memory: "1280Mi"
requests:
memory: "768Mi"
consumerProperties:
fetch.max.bytes: 20971520
fetch.max.wait.ms: 250
fetch.min.bytes: 5242880
max.partition.fetch.bytes: 5242880
max.poll.records: 200000
receive.buffer.bytes: 131072
#
# The Timescale configs need to be enabled if upgrading from a pre-2.18 deployment.
# The following is an example config. The actual configs should match the existing deployment,
# except that the resource values below have been reduced since Timescale only serves reads during migration.
#
#timescale:
# sharedBuffersPercentage: 40
# bgwLruMaxPages: 8000
# walBuffers: 64000
# clusterSize: 2
# dataDiskSize: "200Gi"
# timeseriesDiskCount: 4
# timeseriesDiskSize: "2Ti"
# timeseriesStorageClass: "gp3-timescale"
# walDiskSize: "300Gi"
# walStorageClass: "gp3-timescale"
# maxLocksPerTransaction: 10000
# resources:
# requests:
# memory: "16Gi"
# cpu: "2"
# limits:
# memory: "16Gi"
# cpu: "2"
# The following `nodeSelector` and `tolerations` configs can be removed if re-using Timescale nodes for ClickHouse
# nodeSelector:
# instancegroup: timescale-nodes
# tolerations:
# - key: dedicated
# operator: Equal
# value: timescale-nodes
# effect: NoSchedule
#
# The Loki configs need to be enabled if upgrading from a pre-2.18 deployment.
# The following is an example config. The actual configs should match the existing deployment,
# except that the resource values below may be increased depending on the volume of the logs.
# Loki memory limits depend on chunk data volume. A reasonable guideline is 2-4x the chunk data size,
# with a minimum of 4 GiB. The 8 GiB limit below assumes chunk data of ~2-4 GiB.
# Adjust if your deployment has significantly larger log volume.
#
#loki:
# diskSize: "30Gi"
# retentionTime: "168h"
# ingestionBurstSize: 12
# ingestionRateLimit: 8
# resources:
# limits:
# cpu: "1"
# memory: "8Gi"
# requests:
# cpu: "500m"
# memory: "1Gi"
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