# Last9 vs Thanos

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Thanos

| Attribute | Last9 | Thanos |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 48.4 (73% (medium)) | 57.3 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 51 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 1,266 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 14,188 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A unified observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus that manages logs, metrics, and traces with high-cardinality storage. It includes AI-assisted incident investigation, real-time alerting, and user monitoring capabilities. | CNCF Incubating project extending Prometheus with global query view across multiple servers, unlimited retention via object storage, and downsampling capabilities. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"hosting":"self","metrics":true,"dashboards":true}` |
| integrations.count | 100 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Zenduty"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Flock"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"ArgoCD"},{"name":"Buildkite"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"ECS"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"RDS"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Flask"},{"name":"Django"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"Express.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Laravel"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Fluent Bit"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"iOS"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"React Native"}]` | `[{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"OpenTSDB"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Swift"},{"name":"Tencent COS"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://last9.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:06:22.032Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://thanos.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T17:01:37.783Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | free | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 6 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.4","date":"2026-07-30T14:33:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.3","date":"2026-07-29T10:49:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.2","date":"2026-07-17T06:51:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.1","date":"2026-07-16T19:45:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0","date":"2026-07-08T14:44:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0-rc.2","date":"2026-06-30T13:06:27Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.42.0-rc.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0-rc.1","date":"2026-06-25T07:16:42Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.42.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0","date":"2026-02-12T10:32:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.41.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0-rc.1","date":"2026-02-11T10:41:41Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.41.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0-rc.0","date":"2026-02-09T14:03:57Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.41.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.1","date":"2025-10-28T18:13:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.40.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.0","date":"2025-10-27T11:24:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.40.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.0-rc.0","date":"2025-10-21T13:02:52Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.40.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.2","date":"2025-07-21T06:51:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.1","date":"2025-07-01T13:03:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.0","date":"2025-06-25T11:54:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.0-rc.0","date":"2025-06-20T04:45:58Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0","date":"2025-04-03T12:14:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.38.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0-rc.1","date":"2025-04-01T07:07:33Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0-rc.0","date":"2025-03-25T14:05:25Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-rc.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 8 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fthanos-io%2Fthanos&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Last9 | Thanos |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Signals** |  |  |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log management | ✓ | - |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | - |
| Application performance monitoring | ✓ | - |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ | - |
| **Response** |  |  |
| Alerting | ✓ | - |
| On-call / incident management | ✓ | - |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Self-hosted only |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:58:39.953Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*