Cortex
Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant Prometheus as a service
Cortex provides a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term store for Prometheus metrics. It offers a single API endpoint for querying and writing time series data across clusters.
Key features
- Multi-tenant metrics storage
- Horizontally scalable
- Prometheus-compatible API
- Long-term retention
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Built for very large scale
- True multi-tenancy
Trade-offs
- Operationally heavy
- Overkill for small setups
Cortex replaces
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