Alternatives to Cortex
Provide scalable, multi-tenant storage for Prometheus-compatible metrics. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Cortex
Provide scalable, multi-tenant storage for Prometheus-compatible metrics.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Cortex.
Thanos
Extend Prometheus with long-term storage and a shared query layer.
Thanos extends existing Prometheus instances with long-term object-storage retention and a shared query layer, rather than acting as a multi-tenant ingestion store like Cortex.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Prometheus
Metrics database that scrapes targets and evaluates alerting rules.
Grafana
Dashboard and visualization front end for metrics, logs and traces.
Grafana Loki
Collect and query application logs using label-based indexing.
Grafana Tempo
Store and query distributed traces with a dedicated tracing back end.
Telegraf
Collect and forward metrics using a configurable server agent.
InfluxDB 1.x / TICK Stack
Legacy self-hosted time-series platform bundling InfluxDB with Telegraf, Chronograf and Kapacitor.
