Strengths and Features

✅ CNCF Graduated: An official open-source project.

✅ Advanced Architecture: Sidecar without config changes.

✅ Production Proven: Used by thousands of enterprises.

⚠️ Advanced features may require a paid plan

⚠️ Suitability depends on the team and technical environment

Product Information

Detailed Notes

Company Overview

Thanos is a cloud-native open-source project providing highly available Prometheus setups and long-term storage. The project was initially started by Fabian Reinartz and Bartek Plotka inside Improbable in 2017, aiming to solve Prometheus's high-availability and data persistence issues at scale.

Thanos uses a Sidecar architecture that uploads metrics data to object storage without modifying Prometheus configuration, providing a unified query layer for a global view across Prometheus instances. The project became a CNCF graduated project in 2021.

Core Products and Services

Highly Available Prometheus: Solves high-availability at scale.
Long-Term Storage: Metrics uploaded to object storage.
Global Query: Unified cross-instance query layer.
Core Components: Sidecar, Store, and Query.

Core Strengths

CNCF Graduated: An official open-source project.
Advanced Architecture: Sidecar without config changes.
Production Proven: Used by thousands of enterprises.

Key Milestones

2017: Project started inside Improbable.
2018: Open-sourced on GitHub.
2021: Becomes a CNCF graduated project.

Market Position

Thanos competes with the following projects in the observability market:

VictoriaMetrics: A time-series database solution.
Mimir: Grafana's long-term storage solution.
Cortex: A Prometheus multi-tenant solution.