Is Thanos still the best long-term storage solution for Prometheus, or should our team be looking into Cortex or Mimir for petabyte-scale metrics?
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Is Thanos still the best long-term storage solution for Prometheus, or should our team be looking into Cortex or Mimir for petabyte-scale metrics?
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Thanos vs Grafana Mimir vs Cortex 2026 petabyte scale architecture operational tradeoffs official docsGoogle ↗
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Grafana Mimir architecture scalability multi-tenancy object storage documentationGoogle ↗
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Thanos architecture components object storage Prometheus documentationGoogle ↗
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Cortex project status maintenance Grafana Mimir fork relationship 2026Google ↗
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Thanos vs Grafana Mimir vs Cortex 2026 petabyte scale architecture operational tradeoffs official docs Google ↗
Grafana Mimir architecture scalability multi-tenancy object storage documentation Google ↗
Thanos architecture components object storage Prometheus documentation Google ↗
Cortex project status maintenance Grafana Mimir fork relationship 2026 Google ↗
- thanos/docs/design.md at main · thanos-io/thanos · github.com
- Grafana Mimir architecture · grafana.com
- Introduction to Grafana Mimir · grafana.com
- Documentation · cortexmetrics.io
- About ingest storage architecture · grafana.com
- Configure the Grafana Mimir Kafka backend · grafana.com
- Grafana Mimir architecture · grafana.com
- thanos/docs/storage.md at main · thanos-io/thanos · github.com
- thanos/docs/components/sidecar.md at main · thanos-io/thanos · github.com
- Thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities · thanos.io
- Releases · cortexproject/cortex · github.com
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Thanos vs Grafana Mimir vs Cortex 2026 petabyte scale architecture operational tradeoffs official docs OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Grafana Mimir architecture scalability multi-tenancy object storage documentation OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Thanos architecture components object storage Prometheus documentation OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Cortex project status maintenance Grafana Mimir fork relationship 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 |