Metrics at Full Throttle: Intro and Deep Dive Into Thanos

This talk provides an introduction and deep dive into Thanos, an open-source solution for scaling Prometheus-based monitoring. It covers Thanos's core components, long-term retention capabilities, and how it addresses challenges in querying metrics across large time ranges and ingesting metrics at scale. The presentation highlights recent advancements in query execution performance, the development of a new query engine, and quality of service improvements for multi-tenant monitoring scenarios. It also discusses distributed execution and native histograms, two upcoming features expected to further enhance Thanos's capabilities and scalability.