curl -X POST -g 
'http://localhost:9090/api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_series?match[]={instance="instance:port"}'

Is the above query correct? If so, I am able to see those instances' values 
that were removed from the prometheus.yml file. Will it take time to 
reflect on those changes?

On Monday, 5 December 2022 at 12:56:14 UTC+5:30 Brian Candler wrote:

> You're not cleaning tombstones, you're deleting timeseries. This means 
> that the endpoint needs to be
> /api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_series?match[]={instance="foo"}
> just like the page I linked you to says.
>
> On Monday, 5 December 2022 at 04:40:42 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I enabled this flag (--web.enable-admin-api) and executed this command  
>> curl -XPOST http://localhost:9090/api/v1/admin/tsdb/clean_tombstones 
>>
>> Still, I am able to see the deleted instances while executing the 
>> prometheus query.  
>>
>> On Sunday, 4 December 2022 at 23:26:45 UTC+5:30 Brian Candler wrote:
>>
>>> Use Google. Enter "prometheus delete timeseries", and you will find:
>>>
>>> https://www.robustperception.io/deleting-time-series-from-prometheus/
>>>
>>> This gives the exact command.
>>>
>>> On Sunday, 4 December 2022 at 17:20:28 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> could you please help me with the exact command?
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, 4 December 2022 at 22:18:28 UTC+5:30 [email protected] 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The default retention is set to 15d iirc, so once that ages out it wil 
>>>>> disappear. You can also use promtool to manually delete out data if you 
>>>>> really wish. 
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>> *From: *[email protected] <[email protected]> 
>>>>> on behalf of BHARATH KUMAR <[email protected]>
>>>>> *Date: *Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 11:00 AM
>>>>> *To: *Prometheus Users <[email protected]>
>>>>> *Subject: *[prometheus-users] How to delete the historical data
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>> I installed node exporter in multiple instances. Now I deleted one of 
>>>>> those instance(this is unreachable instance) from prometheus.yml file. 
>>>>> When 
>>>>> I am trying to query up == 0, still I am able to see this instance in the 
>>>>> database. 
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>> How to delete that particular instance in database? Any help?
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks & regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Bharath Kumar 
>>>>>
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