Hi there,
I’d like to collect metrics about our GitLab (EE) instance and I chose to use InfluxDB + Grafana.
So far, my InfluxDB is running and GitLab pushes data there. I’m following the official Grafana Configuration guide by GitLab, but I’m stuck at the “Apply retention policies and create continuous queries” chapter: Configure Grafana | GitLab
I’ve downloaded the influxdb-management repo, set up the .env file as described, but bundle exec rake fails with the error message:
InfluxDB::QueryError: retention policy duration must be greater than the shard duration
At first I thought the GitLab Docs are out-of-date because there’s an extra option retention-policy in the [[udp]] section that isn’t mentioned on the influxdb configuration guide (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/monitoring/performance/influxdb_configuration.html)
But I’ve set retention-policy = "1y", restarted the influxdb Docker container and bundle exec rake still fails.
Does anyone know what could be wrong with my setup? Here is the full bundle exec rake --trace log:
root@05a8876dbe99:/tmp/influxdb-management# bundle exec rake --trace
** Invoke default (first_time)
** Invoke policies (first_time)
** Execute policies
rake aborted!
InfluxDB::QueryError: retention policy duration must be greater than the shard duration
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Tasks: TOP => default => policies