3 years ago

Category: Database, Kubernetes

The open source Thanos project, which centralizes, scales, and offers long term storage and high availability for Prometheus-based monitoring, has moved on to the incubation level of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Prometheus is one of the core open source projects for monitoring Kubernetes applications, as well as a graduated CNCF project, and it was built long before the container orchestration tool became the cloud native household name it is today. While Prometheus does what it does well, it wasn’t made with the scalability and data storage needs in mind that can be necessary for cloud native applications, and so tools like Thanos and Cortex, another CNCF project, were created.

In fact, Plotka is not only a maintainer of Thanos, but also Cortex and Prometheus, and the same can be said for many involved.

We were looking for something that is more native to Prometheus that would maybe use the same storage format, a cheaper storage, and maybe an easier deployment model,” said Plotka.