Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale

Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale

  • May 21, 2018
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Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale

Prometheus’s simple and reliable operational model is one of its major selling points. However, past a certain scale, we’ve identified a few shortcomings. To resolve those, we’re today officially announcing Thanos, an open source project by Improbable to seamlessly transform existing Prometheus deployments in clusters around the world into a unified monitoring system with unbounded historical data storage.

Source: improbable.io

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