Thanos

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Thanos

Thanos is a horizontally scalable, multi-tenant monitoring system in a form of distributed time series database that supports Prometheus data format.

Official Documentation

https://thanos.io/tip/thanos/getting-started.md

APIs

• Querying: Prometheus APIs, Remote Read
• Series: Prometheus APIs, gRPC SeriesAPI
• Metric Metadata: Prometheus API, gRPC MetricMetadataAPI
• Rules, Alerts: Prometheus API, gRPC RulesAPI
• Targets: Prometheus API, gRPC TargetsAPI
• Exemplars: Prometheus API, gRPC ExemplarsAPI
• Receiving: Prometheus Remote Write

Tutorials

https://katacoda.com/thanos

Notable Talks/Blog Posts

• 12.2020: Absorbing Thanos Infinite Powers for Multi-Cluster Telemetry

• 12.2020: Turn It Up to a Million: Ingesting Millions of Metrics with Thanos Receive

• 02.2019: FOSDEM + demo

• 03.2019: Alibaba Cloud user story

• CloudNative Deep Dive

• CloudNative Intro

• Prometheus in Practice: HA with Thanos

• Banzai Cloud user story

Bug Trackers

https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/issues

Communication Channels

The CNCF Slack workspace’s (join here) channels:

• #thanos for user related things.
• #thanos-dev for developer related things.

Proposal Process

https://thanos.io/tip/contributing/contributing.md/#adding-new-features--components

Our Usage

We use Thanos in many places within Red Hat, notably:

• In Prometheus Operator (sidecar)
• In Openshift Platform Monitoring (PM) (see CMO)
• In Openshift User Workload Monitoring (UWM)
• In RHOBS (so Observatorium)

Maintainers

https://thanos.io/tip/thanos/maintainers.md/#core-maintainers-of-this-repository