Cortex Posts

The Technical Oversight Committee of CNCF voted to move Cortex up from sandbox to incubation, an indicator of project maturity.

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Grafana Labs software engineer Marco Pracucci discussed the new experimental Cortex blocks storage, how it can reduce …

While prepping for large new tenants, the Cortex community has run into some challenges. But along the way we've found solutions that include …

The Cortex community spent almost a year working on removing the need to run an index store and instead storing all the time series data as blocks in …

At PromCon Online, Marco Pracucci and Bartek Plotka talked about how Cortex and Thanos started to learn from and even influence each other – thanks to …

PromCon Online starts today, and Grafana Labs team members will be giving talks on the Prometheus storage engine, the future of the ecosystem, and …

Annanay has made contributions to the Cortex, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry open source projects.

Here’s a tutorial for setting up the first two integrations for the Grafana Cloud Agent.

We've all been in that situation where it is challenging to fully grasp what the metrics of our service(s) are and what they do. Here's how we …

Today we're releasing Cortex 1.1, the first (minor) release since Cortex went GA in March. We've improved reliability and performance -- read more to …

The WAL feature, added in January 2020, is ready to shed its experimental tag.

The first GA release for Cortex features production documentation, turn-key Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts, and an easy-to-use single …

We use the hash ring to achieve consistent hashing for the series sharding and replication across ingesters. But there can be issues; here’s how we’re …

We've created a remote_write-focused version of a Prometheus agent. Here's why you should use it if you’re running Prometheus at scale.

Meet Grafana Labs team member Peter!

Can Loki reuse the work done in Cortex to drastically reduce data storage? Yes, it can!

A look at some methods to use – or perhaps abuse – Hashicorp’s Consul for more efficiency and scale.

Cortex maintainer Goutham Veeramachaneni discusses the roadmap for the project.

Grafana Labs software engineer Goutham Veeramachaneni traces the history of Cortex, the horizontally scalable version of Prometheus that can handle …

At KubeCon 2019, Grafana Labs software engineers Goutham Veeramachaneni and Edward Welch discussed the idea of monomicroliths, which combines …

In his KubeCon talk, Goutham Veeramachaneni offered advice about performance tuning and day 2 operations for Cortex clusters at scale.

Tom Wilkie offers a recap of the talk he gave at PromCon about the different approaches Cortex and Thanos take to address the same Prometheus …

Here’s how we dedupe highly available samples in Cortex while running Prometheus in production.

Meet Grafana Labs team member Callum!

VP of Product Tom Wilkie demos how to accelerate Prometheus queries from four seconds to less than 100 milliseconds.

How The Trade Desk evolved their homegrown stack into a modern-day system that saves time and money

Meet Grafana Labs team member Goutham!

Cortex v0.1 has been released. Here’s what’s new with the CNCF Sandbox project.

On July 19, Grafana Cloud’s Hosted Prometheus service experienced a 30-minute outage. Here’s our incident postmortem.

In case you missed it, all the highlights from KubeCon + CouldNativeCon EU from the Grafana Labs team.

At KubeCon last week, Weaveworks' Bryan Boreham and I gave a talk about how we've improved Cortex's query performance. Here's a recap.

At KubeCon this week, Tom Wilkie is giving two talks on Cortex. ICYMI, here’s the latest news about the technology used in Grafana Cloud’s Hosted …

When Grafana Labs built Loki, the team was determined to incorporate the best of both worlds, making it much simpler to use, whether you want to run a …