Summary

In this chapter, we went through all of the Thanos components that are available to gain a greater understanding of the comprehensive suite of features offered by the Thanos project.

We learned how Thanos Sidecar enables long-term storage of metrics in object storage and distributed querying through Thanos Query, how Thanos Compactor operates on those uploaded TSDB blocks in object storage to compact and downsample them, and how Thanos Store retrieves them from object storage on-demand for queries.

We saw how Thanos Query enables distributed querying of metrics from the various components that implement Thanos’s gRPC StoreAPI, and how Thanos Query Frontend enables more efficient use of Thanos Query instances through caching, query sharding, and splitting.

We utilized Thanos Ruler so that we could evaluate Prometheus alerts and rules across all endpoints connected to a Thanos Query instance.

Finally, we learned about and deployed Thanos Receiver so that we...