Current State and the Future of Cortex

The presentation discusses the current state and future plans for Cortex, a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

• Cortex is a microservices-based solution for storing large amounts of Prometheus metrics
• The presentation covers the architecture of Cortex and introduces three new features in the upcoming release
• The speaker encourages community involvement in contributing to Cortex's development and maintenance
• The presentation ends with a Q&A session

The speaker mentions a use case for time series pertains encryption, where a compromised key can be revoked to prevent unauthorized access to metrics. This feature allows for granular control over access to metrics and can prevent data loss in the event of a security breach.

Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus. We will walk through what happened to Cortex throughout 2022, and what's next.