Deep dive into Prometheus’s use-uncached-io work and why page cache… — DevOps & SRE notes — TG.ME

Deep dive into Prometheus’s use-uncached-io work and why page cache behavior can make Kubernetes container memory metrics misleading. Useful for anyone running Prometheus at scale: covers memory predictability, compaction writes, OOM risk, and tradeoffs around direct I/O.

https://prometheus.io/blog/2026/03/05/uncached-io/
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