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Cortex: Horizontally Scalable, Highly Available Prometheus
Cortex is a horizontally scalable, highly available monitoring and alerting system based on Prometheus, designed to efficiently handle large volumes of time series data while providing long-term storage and multitenancy. It leverages technologies such as AWS DynamoDB, Google Cloud Bigtable, and Apache Cassandra for durability and reliability, while managing data ingestion and queries effectively. Additionally, Grafana Cloud offers a fully managed metrics platform integrating Grafana and Prometheus, simplifying observability for users.
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Overview of Cortex as a scalable and available version of Prometheus, introduced by Tom Wilkie.
Detailed features of Prometheus including its monitoring capabilities, architecture milestones, and long-term storage.
Insights into the contributor community of Cortex and its governance structure supporting open-source collaboration.
Cortex's scalability attributes including horizontal scaling, distributed architecture, and global data views.
Cortex's approach for high availability through sample replication and consistency measures to ensure reliability.
Strategies for long-term durability and cost-effective storage in Cortex, including the use of NoSQL databases.
Multitenancy capabilities of Cortex allowing for separate user management within a single system.
Resources for deeper understanding and ways to get involved with the Cortex project.
Introduction to Grafana Cloud as a managed service for metrics management and observability.
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Cortex: Horizontally Scalable, Highly Available Prometheus
- 1. Cortex: Horizontally Scalable, HighlyAvailable Prometheus Tom Wilkie, Nov 2018 @tom_wilkie
- 3. Prometheus • A monitoring& alerting system. • Inspired by Google’s BorgMon • Originally built by SoundCloud in 2012 • Open Source, now part of the CNCF • Simple text-based metrics format • Multidimensional datamodel • Rich, concise query language
- 4. Cortex • Horizontally scalablePrometheus • Distributed, fault tolerant architecture • Long term storage • Multitenant github.com/cortexproject/cortex
- 5. 16/06/2016 First designdoc 25/08/2016 PromCon 2016 talk 25/10/2016 Renamed to Cortex 23/01/2017 Support for Recording Rules & Alerts 13/07/2017 BigTable support added 18/08/2017 PromCon 2017 talk 08/02/2018 Cassandra support added 20/09/2018 Join CNCF Sandbox http://goo.gl/prdUYV
- 6. >2 million samples/s >100million timeseries Adopters Users
- 7. Community • Commits from37 contributors, spanning ~6 companies. • Apache 2 license. • Community mailing list + ~fortnightly call since Feb 2018. • Establishing governance based on CNI.
- 8. Horizontally Scalable Highly Available LongTerm Storage Multitenant
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- 10. Prometheus Scaling Your JobsYourJobsYour JobsYour JobsYour Apps Your JobsYour JobsYour JobsYour JobsYour Apps Scale Up Your JobsYour JobsYour JobsYour JobsYour Apps Your JobsYour JobsYour JobsYour JobsYour Infra Manually Shard
- 11. Cortex Distributor Cortex Ingester Cortex Ingester Cortex Ingester Cortex Ingester s Cortex Scaling: DistributedHash Table hash(s) 0 16 32 48
- 12. us-central1 eu-west2 Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Apps Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Apps Global View Canconfigure multiple datasource in Grafana… …but then only see data for one Prometheus at a time.
- 13. us-central1 eu-west2 Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Apps Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Apps Global ViewII “global” Prometheus Can configure a “global” Prometheus to federate samples from “local” Prometheus…. …but in practice only propagate aggregates, have to preconfigure rules, hard to scale etc.
- 14. us-central1 eu-west2 Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Apps Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Jobs Your Apps Global ViewIII “global” Cortex Or can push all data to a central Cortex cluster. Cortex horizontal scalability allows it to scale to handle all the raw samples.
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- 16. Prometheus HA Your JobsYourJobsYour JobsYour JobsYour Apps AlertmanagerAlertmanager
- 18. Cortex HA: Dynamo-stylereplication Cortex Ingester Cortex Ingester Cortex Ingester Cortex Distributor s Distributor replicates samples on ingest. Waits for N/2 ACKs from ingesters to ensure consistency. Cortex Querier s Querier de-dupes samples on read - again, only waiting for N/2 responses.
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- 20. durability /dʒɔːrəˈbɪlɪti/ noun 1. the abilityto withstand wear, pressure, or damage. “the reliability and durability of plastics"
- 21. Durability is hard… AWSDynamoDB Google Cloud Bigtable Apache Cassandra …let someone else deal with it.
- 22. • Why notjust write the samples straight to the NOSQL DB? • By building & flushing chunks, Cortex acts as a “write deamplifier”, massively reducing cost. • The NOSQL DBs also don’t necessarily support the right indexes for executing PromQL queries. Cortex adds these. s 30k samples/s 450k series ~10 IOPs
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- 24. Pod-per-tenant s Auth / Frontend … Automated Provisioning ` Multitenant s Auth / Frontend Nativelymulti tenant services handle different users within the same process
- 25. Pod-per-tenant Multitenant Pros • No applicationmodifications necessary. • Effectively zero change of “leakage” between tenants. Cons • Cattle-not-pets • Provisioning automation hides a lot of complexity… Pros • Per-tenant marginal costs can be close to zero • Can take advantage of statistical multiplexing. • Reduced provisioning complexity can be traded for more “interesting” architecture. Cons • Takes work…
- 26. Horizontally Scalable Highly Available LongTerm Storage Multitenant
- 27. • PromCon 2016talk • KubeCon 2016 talk • PromCon 2017 talk • Original design doc • CNCF TOC Presentation • Amazon’s Dynamo Paper More Reading
- 28. Get Involved! github.com/cortexproject/cortex #cortex onslack.cncf.io @tom_wilkie, [email protected]
- 29. + Grafana Cloud isa hosted and fully managed SaaS metrics platform that helps Ops and Dev teams using Grafana to understand the behavior of their applications and infrastructure Grafana Cloud allows users to provision and manage the best open source observability tools - Grafana and Prometheus - all through a simple UI and single API. What is Grafana Cloud? Store, visualize and alert without the headache of scaling or managing your own monitoring stack. Your complete, fully managed, hosted metrics platform. Grafana Cloud: