Thanos
Thanos is an open-source, highly available, and horizontally scalable monitoring system that extends Prometheus. It enables global query views across multiple Prometheus instances, long-term storage capabilities, and high availability for Prometheus deployments by integrating with object storage.
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2018
- Category
- cloud_infrastructure
- Problem solved
- Thanos was created to address key limitations of standalone Prometheus deployments, specifically the lack of horizontal scalability, a unified global view across multiple instances, cost-effective long-term data retention, and inherent high availability for its components. [1]
- Platforms
- Linux, Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), Kubernetes, Docker
Related technologies
Notable users
- Improbable (original creator)
- Bilibili [5]
- Many other large enterprises leveraging Prometheus at scale [4]
- Grafana Labs (contributes to Thanos, also Mimir)
- Salesforce [6]