Alternatives to Thanos
Extend Prometheus with long-term storage and a shared query layer. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Thanos
Extend Prometheus with long-term storage and a shared query layer.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Thanos.
Cortex
Provide scalable, multi-tenant storage for Prometheus-compatible metrics.
Cortex provides scalable, multi-tenant storage for Prometheus-compatible metrics with distributed ingestion and querying, and also involves managing several components in larger deployments.
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.
Prometheus Alertmanager
A server that deduplicates, groups and routes alerts from Prometheus to email, PagerDuty and other receivers.
InfluxDB 1.x / TICK Stack
Legacy self-hosted time-series platform bundling InfluxDB with Telegraf, Chronograf and Kapacitor.
karma
A self-hosted web dashboard for viewing, grouping and silencing alerts from Prometheus Alertmanager.
Telegraf
Collect and forward metrics using a configurable server agent.
