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AI-generatedscrape_timeout equal to scrape_interval is accepted by Prometheus 2.x config validation
Prometheus documentation recommends that scrape_timeout stay shorter than scrape_interval for each scrape config. The configuration parser does not hard-reject values where scrape_timeout equals or exceeds scrape_interval, so overlapping scrapes against the same target can occur. When a scrape exceeds its timeout, Prometheus cancels the HTTP request through
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