Evaluate Prometheus possible alternatives for HA deployments and long term storage (Thanos, Cortex, Mimir or VictoriaMetrics)

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Enhancement Request

Evaluate alternatives to upgrade current metrics observability solution (Prometheus) to providing HA and long term storage capabilities.

Possible Alternatives

• Prometheus architecture evolution with additional components that provides HA and long-term storage capabilities, like Thanos, Cortex or Grafana Mimir.

• VictoriaMetrics as a complete replacement for Prometheus

References

• Thanos web
• Grafana Mimir
• Thanos repository
• Multi-cluster monitoring with Thanos
• Improving HA and long-term storage for Prometheus using Thanos on EKS with S3
• Thanos and Prometheus Operator
• Grafana Mimir — our journey towards infinite wisdom with 5m active time series