Limit dropped streams

[cyriltovena]

The dropped streams list is unbounded see

loki/pkg/ingester/tailer.go

Line 208 in cff8324

func (t *tailer) blockedSince() *time.Time {

This means a slow receiver can have this list to grow infinitely and this can increase the memory usage on the ingester side, specially if the label-set is big (e.g from parsing label with json)

See ingester memory for example:

I suggest we only keep the last 10 dropped streams.

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