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⁠Overview

Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity. It can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments and leverages the Prometheus 2.0 storage format to cost-efficiently store historical metric data in any object storage while retaining fast query latencies. Additionally, it provides a global query view across all Prometheus installations and can merge data from Prometheus HA pairs on the fly.

• Getting Started⁠
• Design⁠
• Prom Meetup Slides⁠
• Introduction blog post⁠
• Benchmarks⁠

⁠Features

• Global querying view across all connected Prometheus servers
• Deduplication and merging of metrics collected from Prometheus HA pairs
• Seamless integration with existing Prometheus setups
• Any object storage as its only, optional dependency
• Downsampling historical data for massive query speedup
• Cross-cluster federation
• Fault-tolerant query routing
• Simple gRPC "Store API" for unified data access across all metric data
• Easy integration points for custom metric providers

⁠Contributing

Contributions are very welcome!

⁠Community

Thanos is an open source project and we welcome new contributers and members of the community. Here are ways to get in touch with the community:

• Slack: #thanos⁠
• Twitter: @improbableio⁠
• Issue Tracker: GitHub Issues⁠