Metrics at Full Throttle: Intro and Deep Dive Into Thanos - Saswata Mukherjee & Filip Petkovski

Metrics at Full Throttle: Intro and Deep Dive Into Thanos - Saswata Mukherjee & Filip Petkovski, Shopify Thanos is one of the leading open-source solutions when it comes to scaling Prometheus-based monitoring. It is a single binary, that provides you with various components that allow composing it into a distributed highly-available metric system with long-term retention. Thanos already addresses several unique challenges with scaling functionality like querying metrics across large time ranges via downsampling and ingesting metrics at scale. Over the last few quarters, the Thanos community has been more active than ever. We have been heavily focused on interesting challenges around operational excellence, namely query execution performance, building a brand new query engine and quality of service advancements. In this talk, you will learn about the basics of Thanos and how to leverage its state-of-the-art features. The Thanos maintainers will share their insights by giving you a brief overview, and demonstrating how they are using the latest features in larger engineering contexts.