What is the Prometheus Cortex?
Prometheus Cortex is not simply another tool in the monitoring toolbox; it is a revolutionary innovation. Consider it an improvement on Prometheus, the well-loved open-source monitoring and alerting system within the DevOps community. Cortex excels at managing enormous volumes of time series data, but what really sets it apart are its scalable architecture and long-term storage capabilities.
A high-level abstract of a Cortex-backed Prometheus architecture
With Cortex, Prometheus has an extremely accessible and scalable backend that allows isolated metrics throughout the multi-tenant architecture. Cortex also provides long-term storage for customized metrics, enabling the construction of dynamic dashboards with charts and graphs as well as historical search capabilities. This allows DevOps teams to modify their visualizations of real-time network traffic to support cloud computing apps in production or to monitor additional runtime events like remote processing and data mining for machine learning (ML).
What is Prometheus Cortex ?
In the current digital era, where milliseconds count, software applications must be sustained, which calls for a robust monitoring and warning system. Introducing Prometheus Cortex, a powerful addition to the Prometheus ecosystem that provides long-term, scalable storage along with sophisticated querying capabilities. Let’s take a closer look at Prometheus Cortex, going over all of its features, from its practical applications to its foundations.