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AI-generatedQuery concurrency limit queue behavior change in Prometheus 3.0
Prometheus enforces a global query concurrency limit via --query.max-concurrency, default 20. Excess queries queue and latency appears only when concurrent requests exceed the limit. The limit applies to user queries and internal workloads such as recording rule and alerting rule evaluations. Prometheus 3.0 introduced a new query engine with improved paralle