Error "out of bounds" after uploading data from future

[kojderszymon]

Describe the bug When data is sent (via remote_write) from the future to the Cortex (e.g., data two hours later or more), the Cortex stops accepting any current data. Errors appear in the logs: "err: out of bounds". This is most likely related to the inability to upload data older than an hour back (after uploading data from 2 hours ago, the current data is too old compared to the latest sample).

Questions

• Is there a way around the problem by uploading data from the future as another tenant or something like that?
• Is there a setting that will help me upload future data without restrictions?
• Is there a chance that this will be fixed in the future?

[alanprot]

That's because currently we can only append data to the tsdb head chunk.

One thing you can try is to keep the head chunks open for more time tweaking this config

  # TSDB blocks range period.
  # CLI flag: -blocks-storage.tsdb.block-ranges-period
  [block_ranges_period: <list of duration> | default = 2h0m0s]

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[friedrichg]

I think out of bounds is more related to data being too old, not about data in the future. This issue is a duplicate of https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/issues/2366