# Prometheus stateful set is installed in lens-metrics namespace
**URL:** https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221
**Category:** Lens Support & Troubleshooting
**Tags:** metrics, cluster
**Created:** [March 7, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221 "2023-03-07T08:48:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@rahul.bhatia](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/rahul.bhatia)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/1 "2023-03-07T08:48:15Z")
this stateful set is installed and is taking around 20 GB of ram in our cluster, what Is this used for ?
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### Author:  [@rahul.bhatia](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/rahul.bhatia)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/2 "2023-03-07T09:00:47Z")
@emeste can you help out here ?
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### Author:  [@emeste](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/emeste)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/3 "2023-03-07T09:10:58Z")
Hi, of course! 🙂
I asked the dev team to take a look at this topic as soon as they can.
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### Author:  [@rahul.bhatia](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/rahul.bhatia)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/4 "2023-03-07T09:17:45Z")
this has requested around 120 GB of RAM from our cluster,
@emeste
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### Author:  [@rahul.bhatia](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/rahul.bhatia)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/5 "2023-03-08T06:17:11Z")
@emeste any updates on this ?
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### Author:  [@jehrismann](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/jehrismann)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/6 "2023-03-08T19:36:37Z")
Hi, I believe the RAM requirement of prometheus is proportional to the number of nodes/pods in a cluster. Does your cluster have a large number of these resources? The built-in Lens metrics provider may not be ideal for all situations. It may be advantageous to customize a different provider, like from the prometheus-community Helm repo, and point Lens to it rather than the built-in metrics provider.
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### Author:  [@rahul.bhatia](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/rahul.bhatia)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2023, 5:50am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/7 "2023-03-09T05:50:29Z")
@emeste any updates on this ?
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### Author:  [@rahul.bhatia](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/rahul.bhatia)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/8 "2023-03-09T05:51:28Z")
so what is this metric-provider used for ? and what actions does it take on its own ?
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### Author:  [@jehrismann](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/jehrismann)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/9 "2023-03-09T17:09:23Z")
In short the metrics provider collects data (like CPU, memory, network traffic) in your cluster so that you can monitor usage/performance by system/node/pod/container etc. When Lens is pointed to the provider it graphically displays the information for you:
The heart of the metrics provider is [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/).
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### Author:  [@rahul.bhatia](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/rahul.bhatia)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/10 "2023-03-09T17:36:12Z")
Alright, I have 2 clusters running in my environment, one does not have this deployment at all, and this stateful-set got automatically setup in the cluster I have mentioned up, I already have a prometheus server running in my cluster, how do I make sure cluster points to that prometheus server ?
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### Author:  [@jehrismann](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/jehrismann)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/prometheus-stateful-set-is-installed-in-lens-metrics-namespace/221/11 "2023-03-10T14:24:58Z")
From the cluster settings there is a page called “Lens Metrics” or “Builtin Metrics Provider” (the name changed recently). Here you can install or uninstall the built-in Lens metrics provider components you have asked about.
There is also “Metrics”, where you can point Lens to your existing prometheus setup. Lens supports a few common metrics setups, and tries to auto-detect what is installed. You can also manually select one of the setups and specify the prometheus service address, if Lens can’t find it.