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Choose a local metrics aggregator #62
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Thanos and CortexThese systems and not drop-in replacements but rather they build on top of Prometheus. Their intended usage is coupled with large and long-term storage in the cloud. They add high-availability and horizontal scaling but also add a lot more complexity to the monitoring infrastructure. Some learnings after reading the links below: Prometheus:
Thanos:
Victoria:
Links:
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That sounds like Victoria ain't a bad choice. There are two drawbacks for Victoria I can see:
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We selected Prometheus as default. |
See #61
We plan on deploying a local metrics aggregator on each physical server.
Whatever we choose should support the OpenMetrics/Prometheus exposition format for ingest and its federation API for output/querying.
Some candidates:
We have no knowledge about Thanos or Cortex but VictoriaMetrics seems to fit the bill.
We should at least take a look at all three options and do some research to see if there are any more available that we should consider.
This issue can be closed once we've made a decision.
The decision should probably be documented in an ADR in the documentation repository.
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