thanos
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project. (by thanos-io)
VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database (by VictoriaMetrics)
| thanos | VictoriaMetrics | |
|---|---|---|
| 77 | 115 | |
| 14,098 | 17,139 | |
| 0.4% | 1.3% | |
| 9.4 | 9.9 | |
| 5 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
thanos
Posts with mentions or reviews of thanos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-08-27.
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The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
Thank you thanos-io: https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/issues/8381#issuecomment...
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Thanos TSDB: How Default Configurations Can Lead to Silent Data Loss
One of the most critical risks in Thanos lies in its compactor component, which, under certain conditions, can silently lead to irreversible data loss. This issue is not just theoretical—it’s rooted in real-world scenarios, as highlighted in GitHub Issue #813 and GitHub Issue #7908. If you’re using Thanos, understanding these risks is essential to protecting your historical data.
- 16 Essential Tools for DevOps & SRE: Monitoring & Logging Mastery
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Your Essential Toolkit for DevOps & SRE: Mastering Monitoring and Logging
Official Website: Thanos
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Top 10 Prometheus Alternatives in 2024 [Includes Open-Source]
Thanos is a set of components that can be added to an existing Prometheus deployment to enable long-term storage and global query view.
- Thanos: Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities
- Thanos: Scalable, Highly Available Prometheus with Long-Term Storage
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Scaling Prometheus with Thanos
Started in November 2017, Thanos is an open-source CNCF incubating project with over 12.8k stars on GitHub. Built on top of Prometheus, Thanos aims to provide a highly available Prometheus environment with long-term storage support and a global view of metrics. Companies like Disney, Abode, eBay, SoundCloud, and ByteDance use Thanos for monitoring at scale. However, setting up Thanos can be complex and requires expertise with Prometheus and industry experience. If you want to overcome the limitations of Prometheus and set up Thanos for monitoring but don't know where to start, CloudRaft offers enterprise-grade consulting and support for Thanos that you should check out. Now, let's delve into the components of Thanos and understand its complete architecture.
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Fastly and the Linux kernel
The open source projects Fastly uses and the foundations we partner with are vital to Fastly’s mission and success. Here's an unscientific list of projects and organizations supported by the Linux Foundation that we use and love include: The Linux Kernel, Kubernetes, containerd, eBPF, Falco, OpenAPI Initiative, ESLint, Express, Fastify, Lodash, Mocha, Node.js, Prometheus, Jenkins, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, etcd, Helm, osquery, Harbor, sigstore, cert-manager, Cilium, Fluentd, Keycloak, Open Policy Agent, Coalition for Content Provenance and Authority (C2PA), Flux, gRPC, Strimzi, Thanos, Linkerd, Let’s Encrypt, WebAssembly. And the list goes on!
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Looking for a way to remote in to K's of raspberry pi's...
Monitoring = netdata on each RPi https://www.netdata.cloud/ binded to the vpn interface being scraped into a prometeus thaons https://thanos.io/ setup with grafana to give management the Green all is good screens (very important).
VictoriaMetrics
Posts with mentions or reviews of VictoriaMetrics.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-04-26.
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VictoriaMetrics VS arc - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 26 Apr 2026
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VictoriaMetrics playgrounds any dev should try in 2026
VictoriaMetrics provides a rich set of public playgrounds that allow you to explore the full observability stack - metrics, logs, traces - and even query migration tools without installing or configuring anything locally. These playgrounds are backed by real VictoriaMetrics components and real data, making them ideal for:
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The Database Zoo: Time Series Databases
VictoriaMetrics: High-performance, cost-efficient TSDB with focus on large-scale deployments and long-term storage.
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Monotonic and Wall Clock Time in the Go Time Package
Wait, I see it's been removed actually [1]. Why, isn't it faster anymore?
[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/commit/c2...
- 16 Essential Tools for DevOps & SRE: Monitoring & Logging Mastery
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Your Essential Toolkit for DevOps & SRE: Mastering Monitoring and Logging
Official Website: VictoriaMetrics
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Show HN: ClickStack – open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
Thanks! If you'll hit any issues with the integration, then please file them at https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues , so we could quickly resolve them.
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Development Environment Configuration
Time Series: Greptime, Influx, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, Tempo, Victoria Metrics
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Building Observability with ClickHouse
Yup, there is a big room for improvements there! BTW, VictoriaLogs docs are open source too [1], so we'll be more than happy receiving pull requests with improvements for the docs!
[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/tree/mast...
- VictoriaLogs v1.0.0 Release
What are some alternatives?
When comparing thanos and VictoriaMetrics you can also consider the following projects:
mimir - Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
cortex - A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
vector - A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.