Native Histogram Support for Kubernetes Metrics — Disabling native histograms
You can disable native histograms at any time using either of two approaches Prometheus-side (fastest, no Kubernetes restart needed; Prometheus 3.x only): Set scrape_native_histograms: false per scrape job.
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You can disable native histograms at any time using either of two approaches
Prometheus-side (fastest, no Kubernetes restart needed; Prometheus 3.x only): Set scrape_native_histograms: false per scrape job. Prometheus resumes scraping classic format on the next scrape interval.
Kubernetes feature gate: Restart the component with --feature-gates=NativeHistograms=false. Only classic histogram format is exposed after restart.
When native histograms are disabled, the metrics endpoint reverts to classic histogram format only. Historical native histogram data in Prometheus remains queryable.
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