revert: query formatting not related to PR goals

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 * [ENHANCEMENT] cortex-mixin: Make `cluster_namespace_deployment:kube_pod_container_resource_requests_{cpu_cores,memory_bytes}:sum` backwards compatible with `kube-state-metrics` v2.0.0. #317
 * [BUGFIX] Fixed `CortexIngesterHasNotShippedBlocks` alert false positive in case an ingester instance had ingested samples in the past, then no traffic was received for a long period and then it started receiving samples again. #308
 * [BUGFIX] Alertmanager: fixed `--alertmanager.cluster.peers` CLI flag passed to alertmanager when HA is enabled. #329
-* [CHANGE] Dashboards: defined container functions for common resources panels: containerDiskWritesPanel, containerDiskReadsPanel, containerDiskSpaceUtilization
+* [CHANGE] Dashboards: defined container functions for common resources panels: containerDiskWritesPanel, containerDiskReadsPanel, containerDiskSpaceUtilization. #331
 
 ## 1.9.0 / 2021-05-18
 

cortex-mixin/dashboards/dashboard-utils.libsonnet

@@ -149,6 +149,18 @@ local utils = import 'mixin-utils/utils.libsonnet';
       // summing the memory of the old instance/pod (whose metric will be stale for 5m) to the new instance/pod.
       'max by(%s) (container_memory_working_set_bytes{%s,container="%s"})' % [$._config.per_instance_label, $.namespaceMatcher(), containerName],
       'min(container_spec_memory_limit_bytes{%s,container="%s"} > 0)' % [$.namespaceMatcher(), containerName],
+    ], ['{{%s}}' % $._config.per_instance_label, 'limit']) +
+    {
+      seriesOverrides: [
+        {
+          alias: 'limit',
+          color: '#E02F44',
+          fill: 0,
+        },
+      ],
+      yaxes: $.yaxes('bytes'),
+      tooltip: { sort: 2 },  // Sort descending.
+    },
 
   containerNetworkPanel(title, metric, instanceName)::
     $.panel(title) +