thanos-io/thanos
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
98/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 95
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 10.0
- age_days: 3227
- days_rel: 34
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 15
Adoption not part of the score
14188 stars · 2354 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Thanos is a set of composable components that turn existing Prometheus deployments into a highly available metrics system with unlimited long-term storage in object storage (S3, GCS, Azure, Swift, Tencent COS). It provides a global query view across all Prometheus instances, deduplication of HA pairs, downsampling, and compaction, and is a CNCF Incubating project written in Go.
Use cases
- store prometheus metrics long term in s3
- query metrics across multiple prometheus servers globally
- set up highly available prometheus with ha pair deduplication
- downsample old metric data for faster dashboards
- unlimited metrics retention without losing query performance
- back up prometheus tsdb data to object storage
- federate prometheus queries across clusters
When to choose
- you run multiple Prometheus servers or clusters and need a single global query view
- you need cost-efficient, unlimited retention of metrics in object storage
- you want Prometheus HA pair deduplication and downsampling/compaction
- you want to keep using Grafana and the Prometheus Query API unchanged
When to avoid
- you have a single small Prometheus instance with modest retention needs
- you want a fully managed metrics service rather than self-operated components
- your metrics stack is not Prometheus-based
Facets
application · maturity stable
monitoring object-storage api-framework deployment microservices monitoring cloud-computing microservices self-hosted go cloud cross-platform self-hosted prometheus metrics long-term-storage observability high-availability cncf downsampling global-query-view time-series-database grafana-compatible devops containers docker kubernetes linux
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos · fetched 2026-08-28 · 648195f3be5d
- homepage: https://thanos.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 62e595d442a4
- site_page: https://thanos.io/v0.40/thanos/getting-started.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · fa062f199ab6
- site_page: https://thanos.io/v0.39/thanos/getting-started.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · 816dd3d6395f
- site_page: https://thanos.io/v0.38/thanos/getting-started.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8bf35f836715
- site_page: https://thanos.io/tip/thanos/getting-started.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · 58c367be2d8e
- site_page: https://thanos.io/v41.0/thanos/getting-started.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · fb9563981b3b
- site_page: https://thanos.io/v0.42/thanos/getting-started.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1971cc0083b8
- site_page: https://thanos.io/v0.37/thanos/getting-started.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · 61deaba0cfae
- site_page: https://thanos.io/v0.36/thanos/getting-started.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · e959f0960acd
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| thanos-io/thanos | main | 98 |
For agents
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