Cortex
Horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant Prometheus as a service.
Why consider Cortex?
Cortex is a CNCF-incubated project providing horizontally scalable, multi-tenant, long-term metric storage for Prometheus with support for S3, GCS, DynamoDB, and Bigtable.
Learn Cortex by building
Practical setup notes, real use cases, and copy-ready examples in one focused guide.
In this guide2 sections
Overview of Cortex
Cortex scales Prometheus ingestion to tens of millions of samples per second, providing strict multi-tenant isolation, cross-region query federation, and high availability.
Running Cortex in Single-Binary Mode
docker run -d \ --name cortex \ -p 9009:9009 \ cortexproject/cortex:latestCortex is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
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