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Talks

Scaling Prometheus: How We Got Some Thanos Into Cortex

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Articles

• How to switch Cortex from chunks to blocks storage (and why you won’t look back) (Oct 2020)
• Now GA: Cortex blocks storage for running Prometheus at scale with reduced operational complexity (Oct 2020)
• Scaling Prometheus: How we’re pushing Cortex blocks storage to its limit and beyond (Aug 2020)
• How blocks storage in Cortex reduces operational complexity for running Prometheus at massive scale (Jul 2020)