Thanos - Scale Your Prometheus Monitoring With Ease

Discover how to scale your Prometheus monitoring effortlessly with Thanos in this 30-minute conference talk by Xiang Dai from Huawei. Learn about the open-source CNCF Sandbox project that extends Prometheus to create a global-scale, highly available monitoring system. Explore basic concepts, use cases, and tradeoffs of Thanos, and gain insights on how to quickly deploy it on Kubernetes without disrupting your existing Prometheus setup. Ideal for beginners seeking to implement a highly available Prometheus setup at scale with potentially unlimited metric retention, while minimizing effort and cost.