Cortex
Cortex is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus.
Features
- Horizontally scalable: Cortex can run across multiple machines in a cluster, exceeding the throughput and storage of a single machine.
- Highly available: When run in a cluster, Cortex can replicate data between machines.
- Multi-tenant: Cortex can isolate data and queries from multiple different independent Prometheus sources in a single cluster.
- Long term storage: Cortex supports S3, GCS, Swift and Microsoft Azure for long term storage of metric data.
Getting Started
To get started with Cortex, follow these steps:
Documentation
Community and Support
If you have any questions about Cortex, you can:
- Ask a question on the Cortex Slack channel. To invite yourself to the CNCF Slack, visit http://slack.cncf.io/.
- File an issue.
- Email cortex-users@lists.cncf.io.
Your feedback is always welcome.
For security issues see https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/security/policy
Engage with Our Community
We invite you to participate in the bi-weekly Cortex Community Calls, an exciting opportunity to connect with fellow developers and enthusiasts. These meetings are held every alternate Thursday, alternating between 1200 UTC and 1700 UTC, providing a platform for open discussion, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
Our meeting notes are meticulously documented and can be accessed here, offering a comprehensive overview of the topics discussed and decisions made.
To ensure you never miss a meeting, we've made it easy for you to keep track:
- View the Cortex Community Call schedule in your browser here. The displayed time zone is UTC.
- If you're a Google Calendar user, you can seamlessly integrate the Cortex Community Call schedule into your personal calendar. Click here to add the Cortex calendar.
- Alternatively, download the .ics file here for use with any calendar application or service that supports the iCal format.
Join us in shaping the future of Cortex, and let's build something amazing together!
Further reading
Talks
- Mar 2024 KubeCon talk "Cortex Intro: Multi-Tenant Scalable Prometheus" (video, slides)
- Apr 2023 KubeCon talk "How to Run a Rock Solid Multi-Tenant Prometheus" (video, slides)
- Oct 2022 KubeCon talk "Current State and the Future of Cortex" (video, slides)
- Oct 2021 KubeCon talk "Cortex: Intro and Production Tips" (video, slides)
- Sep 2020 KubeCon talk "Scaling Prometheus: How We Got Some Thanos Into Cortex" (video, slides)
- Jul 2020 PromCon talk "Sharing is Caring: Leveraging Open Source to Improve Cortex & Thanos" (video, slides)
- Nov 2019 KubeCon talks "[Cortex 101: Horizontally Scalable Long Term Storage for Prometheus][kubecon-cortex-101]" ([video][kubecon-cortex-101-video], [slides][kubecon-cortex-101-slides]), "[Configuring Cortex for Max Performance][kubecon-cortex-201]" ([video][kubecon-cortex-201-video], [slides][kubecon-cortex-201-slides], [write up][kubecon-cortex-201-writeup]) and "[Blazin’ Fast PromQL][kubecon-blazin]" ([slides][kubecon-blazin-slides], [video][kubecon-blazin-video], [write up][kubecon-blazin-writeup])
- Nov 2019 PromCon talk "[Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity: Cortex and Thanos][promcon-two-households]" ([video][promcon-two-households-video], [slides][promcon-two-households-slides], [write up][promcon-two-households-writeup])
- May 2019 KubeCon talks; "[Cortex: Intro][kubecon-cortex-intro]" ([video][kubecon-cortex-intro-video], [slides][kubecon-cortex-intro-slides], [blog post][kubecon-cortex-intro-blog]) and "[Cortex: Deep Dive][kubecon-cortex-deepdive]" ([video][kubecon-cortex-deepdive-video], [slides][kubecon-cortex-deepdive-slides])
- Nov 2018 CloudNative London meetup talk; "Cortex: Horizontally Scalable, Highly Available Prometheus" ([slides][cloudnative-london-2018-slides])
- Aug 2018 PromCon panel; "[Prometheus Long-Term Storage Approaches][promcon-2018-panel]" ([video][promcon-2018-video])
- Dec 2018 KubeCon talk; "[Cortex: Infinitely Scalable Prometheus][kubecon-2018-talk]" ([video][kubecon-2018-video],