Thanos
Thanos is a set of components that integrate on existing Prometheus installations, offering high availability and unlimited storage capacity. Using the Prometheus 2.0 storage format, it archives metric data in object storage units and provides a global query view on all Prometheus instances.
Thanos
95thanos-io · Observability / Datadog Alternatives
Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace
- You query data from multiple Prometheus servers from a single point.
- You combine and singularize metrics from Prometheus HA pairs.
- You store historical data long-term by transferring it to object storage units.
- • High number of open issues (931)
- • NeutralHacker News
Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale
“We use Thanos to provide the observability features (monitoring in particular) to Workers (i.e. user processes we run on our Cloud) that perform the simulation. You can have multiple Workers collaborating on a simulation of the economics or ecology that export monitoring…”
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale
“Oh yes I already caught the demo. So Thanos was your solution for building the energy economy and the larger ecosystem? The energy simulation is what really struck me as a fundamentally challenging element in a game. Maybe largely because in the first world we don't really have…”