cortex

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus. (by cortexproject)

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  • Your Essential Toolkit for DevOps & SRE: Mastering Monitoring and Logging
    15 projects | dev.to | 19 Jun 2025
    Official Product Page: Cortex Metrics
  • Top 10 Prometheus Alternatives in 2024 [Includes Open-Source]
    6 projects | dev.to | 22 Oct 2024
    Cortex is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant prometheus alternative.
  • Scaling Prometheus with Thanos
    6 projects | dev.to | 22 Jul 2024
    There are many Projects like Thanos, M3, Cortex, and Victoriametrics. But Thanos is the most popular among these. Thanos addresses these issues with Prometheus and is the ideal solution for scaling Prometheus in environments with extensive metrics or multiple clusters where we require a global view of historical metrics. In this blog, we will explore the components of Thanos and will try to simplify its architecture by building it step by step, starting with the main components. We will also have a demo using k6-metrics. Before diving into Thanos, I recommend reading our blog on Prometheus Monitoring with Prometheus if you are not already familiar with Prometheus.
  • Self hosted log paraer
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Jun 2023
    now if its more metric data you are using and want to do APM, prometheus is your man https://prometheus.io/, want to make prometheus your full time job? deploy cortex https://cortexmetrics.io/, honorable mention in the metrics space, Zabbix, https://www.zabbix.com/ I've seen use cases of zabbix going way beyond its intended use its a fantastic tool
  • Is anyone frustrated with anything about Prometheus?
    5 projects | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 18 Jun 2023
    Yes, but also no. The Prometheus ecosystem already has two FOSS time-series databases that are complementary to Prometheus itself. Thanos and Mimir. Not to mention M3db, developed at Uber, and Cortex, then ancestor of Mimir. There's a bunch of others I won't mention as it would take too long.
  • Centralized solution for Prometheus?
    4 projects | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 13 Feb 2023
    You can use the Remote write feature to send to a centralized location. It would have to be scalable like Cortex https://cortexmetrics.io/
  • Where to store high-cardinality metrics?
    4 projects | /r/sre | 7 Feb 2023
    Cortex is not really good for high-cardinality metrics (if you are talking about https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex)
  • Building a distributed lab with an observability stack
    3 projects | /r/homelab | 7 Aug 2022
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  • Prometheus federation or Thanos?
    6 projects | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 21 Jun 2022
    Cortex (it is renamed to Mimir recently).
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