Not possible to run two monitoring stacks side-by-side

[avikivity]

I have two runs I want to compare. But I can't start two stacks, because the container names are hardcoded everywhere. I can't even start one stack with the two runs, because one can import only one prometheus dump.

[amnonh]

you can, to do that you need to specify the different ports, the ports numbers will be part of the names.
This is the recommended way of doing a safe upgrade:
https://monitoring.docs.scylladb.com/stable/upgrade/upgrade-guide-from-monitoring-4.x-to-monitoring-4.y.html#validate-the-version-installed-correctly

Let me know tf that does not answer the question, if it does, please close

[tzach]

Another idea, is to collect both clusters metrics to the same monitoring stack, but to two different "clusters" ot "DCs"

# An example with a single cluster and two DC
- targets:
       - 172.17.0.1:9180
       - 172.17.0.2:9180
       - 172.17.0.3:9180
  labels:
       cluster: cluster1
       dc: dc1
- targets:
       - 172.16.0.1:9180
       - 172.16.0.2:9180
       - 172.16.0.3:9180
  labels:
       cluster: cluster2
       dc: dc1

[amnonh]

@avikivity can we close this?

[avikivity]

One needs to disable random other containers for this to work, because not all the code follow the naming convention.

It really needs to be done in a better way.