A new press release reports, “Grafana Labs, the company behind popular open source projects including Grafana and Loki, and the leading contributor to Cortex, today announced that Cortex v1.0 is generally available for production use. Cortex, an open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project, is a scalable, durable, and fast Prometheus-compatible monitoring system. Over the past three years, Prometheus adoption has increased 15x to over 250,000 active instances, driven predominantly by the growth of the cloud-native ecosystem. Prometheus was the second project to be accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation—after Kubernetes—and has become the de facto standard monitoring system for Kubernetes.”

The release continues, “Grafana Labs offers hosted Prometheus powered by Cortex as part of Grafana Cloud, its fully managed logging and metrics platform, as well as Enterprise Support subscriptions for organizations running Cortex on premise. Cortex has been used in production at select locations for more than three years, including at Grafana Labs. Now it is ready for wider enterprise adoption: Cortex v1.0 offers production documentation, turn-key Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts, and an easy-to-use ‘single process’ mode.”

It adds, “Cortex was started by Tom Wilkie and Julius Volz in June 2016 and joined the CNCF Sandbox in September 2018. An open source, Apache-licensed project, it allows users to query metrics from many Prometheus servers in a single place, without any gaps in the graphs due to server failure. Cortex also enables storing Prometheus metrics for long-term capacity planning and performance analysis.”

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