Thanos

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes (Apache-2.0)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2018

Status

Active

Website

thanos.io

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Metrics and time-series databases checklist

9 of 10 confirmed in Thanos's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Metrics.

• + PromQL or compatible queries Yes
• + Prometheus remote write Yes
• + OTLP metrics ingest Yes
• + Long-term storage Yes
• + Clustering or high availability Yes
• + Downsampling Yes
• + Alert rule evaluation Yes
• + Multi-tenancy Yes
• + Built-in query UI Yes
• x Managed hosted service No

Checked against: github.com, thanos.io, thanos.io (2), thanos.io (3)

Alternatives to Thanos

Other metrics and time-series databases tools. See all 11.

• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Serverless, Prometheus-compatible metrics store on AWS: remote-write metrics from EKS or other clusters and query them with PromQL.
• Cortex Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant long-term storage for Prometheus metrics; a CNCF project.
• Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Google Cloud's managed Prometheus backend on Monarch: collect with managed or self-deployed collectors, query with PromQL, billed per sample ingested.
• Grafana Mimir Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant long-term storage for Prometheus metrics from Grafana Labs, backed by object storage.
• Graphite Time-series metrics storage and graphing: Carbon receives metrics, Whisper stores them, and Graphite-web renders graphs and serves a query API.
• InfluxDB Time-series database for metrics and events; InfluxDB 3 Core is open source, with Enterprise and managed cloud editions.
• Nightingale Open source alerting and dashboard platform that sits on Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Elasticsearch and other sources, with alert rules and notification routing.
• Prometheus CNCF metrics system that scrapes time series from exporters and apps, stores them locally, and evaluates PromQL alert rules that it sends to Alertmanager.
• VictoriaMetrics Prometheus-compatible time-series database and monitoring stack in single-node and cluster versions, with enterprise and managed cloud editions.
• T Telegraf InfluxData's plugin-based agent that collects metrics and events from systems, services and APIs and writes them to InfluxDB, Prometheus and many other outputs.