Thanos
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities
- Also known as
- thanos
What is Thanos?
Open source project providing a scalable Prometheus monitoring setup with unlimited retention via pluggable object storage and multi-cluster querying capabilities.
Thanos pricing
We don't have Thanos's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Thanos does
The capabilities that matter for observability tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Metrics
- ✓
- Log management
- -
- Distributed tracing
- -
- Application performance monitoring
- -
- Real-user monitoring
- -
- Alerting
- -
- On-call / incident management
- -
- Dashboards
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry-native
- -
- Hosting
- Self-hosted only
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- Grafana
Thanos alternatives
Other observability tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ChronosphereObservability Purpose Built for Kuberneteslow · 16%
- NetdataThe only agent that thinks for itselfmedium · 61%
- GroundcoverThe full-stack observability platform for engineers & agentsmedium · 50%
- Grafanamedium · 62%
- OpenTelemetry CollectorThe open standard for telemetrylow · 30%
- Datadogmedium · 63%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Thanos, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 46 | 12.00 | 549.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 16.00 | 138.5 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 0 | 5.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Github Activity | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 10.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 22.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.