Thanos
thanos.ioHighly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities
Ops & Infraprometheusmonitoringmetricsobservabilityopen-sourcetime-seriesobject-storage
About
Thanos is an open-source project that extends Prometheus with high availability and long-term storage capabilities. It enables global querying across multiple Prometheus servers and clusters, and supports unlimited metric retention via object storage providers like GCP, S3, and Azure. It also provides downsampling and compaction for efficient querying over large time ranges.
Problem
Prometheus lacks built-in high availability, global query view, and long-term storage for metrics at scale.
For
DevOps engineers and platform teams running Prometheus at scale
How it works
Thanos sits alongside Prometheus instances, federating queries across clusters and offloading metrics to object storage for unlimited retention and downsampling.
Business model
open-source
Status
launched