I cant seem to get timely post federation to my instance (moist.catsweat.com) from lemmy.world. I might see a new post every few hours instead of every minute or so.
posts from other lemmy instances (lemmy.ca, lemmy.ml, dbzer0, etc) have no problem.
i see a ton of lemmy.world traffic in my nginx logs... it seems very specific to 'new posts'. voting/comments seem to come through no problem once the post shows up.
ive checked a few other instances similar to mine, and they are not having this issue. so it seems something specific to lemmy.world and my instance.
i do recall a similar issue several months back, and it involved a lemmy.world admin resetting some outbound queue.
so all you're looking for is the amount of activities generated per instance?
that is only a small subset of the data currently collected, most of the storage use currently comes from collecting information in relation to other instances.
if you want to build a configuration for influxdb/telegraf that i can more or less just drop in there without too many adjustments that would certainly be welcomed.
the metric that would need longer retention is lemmy_federation_state_last_successful_id_local.