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How Workers powers our internal maintenance scheduling pipeline

Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built a maintenance scheduler on Workers to safely plan disruptive operations, while solving scaling challenges by viewing the state of our infrastructure through a graph interface on top of multiple data sources and metrics pipelines.

How Cloudflare runs Prometheus at scale

Here at Cloudflare we run over 900 instances of Prometheus with a total of around 4.9 billion time series. Operating such a large Prometheus deployment doesn’t come without challenges . In this blog post we’ll cover some of the issues we hit and how we solved them