2 years ago

https://grafana.com/ has made some big changes to some of its core offerings, its licensing agreements, and especially, its https://prometheus.io/ support during the past few weeks as it nixes support for Cortex and introduces https://grafana.com/oss/mimir/ in its place. We first describe what these changes are and detail what the implications will be for the millions of users of Grafana’s wildly popular dashboards and tools. The implications of Grafana no longer supporting Cortex — its time-series database monitoring tool built on Prometheus — also means that it is ending support for Cortex, on which Amazon Managed Prometheus runs.

Speaking on background, AWS representatives said AWS not only plans to continue offering Amazon Managed Prometheus built on Cortex, but it also plans to further develop and contribute to the Cortex open source project.

The AGPLv3 license applies to the use of Mimir instead of Cortex’s Apache2 license, which could play a role in how AWS could potentially fork Cortex and/or develop Amazon Managed Prometheus (more on the Cortex project and licensing implications below).