Suraj Singh
Sep 30, 2021
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Thanos
MonitoringWhat is Thanos?
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.
Thanos is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Global querying view across all connected Prometheus serversDeduplication and merging of metrics collected from Prometheus HA pairsSeamless integration with existing Prometheus setupsAny object storage as its only, optional dependencyDownsampling historical data for massive query speedupCross-cluster federationFault-tolerant query routingSimple gRPC "Store API" for unified data access across all metric dataEasy integration points for custom metric providers
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Thanos Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Thanos?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
