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AI-generatedSnapshot restore verification challenges after enabling storage.tsdb.allow-overlap in Prometheus 2.30+
Goal: Determine whether enabling the storage.tsdb.allow-overlap flag (introduced in Prometheus 2.30) affects the reliability of standard verification techniques used after restoring a TSDB snapshot. When a snapshot is restored, Prometheus replays the WAL to bring the database up to date, and verification typically relies on checking that known series contain