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• Cortex is designed for Kubernetes and is not a separate project from Prometheus
• Cortex uses Thanos for reliability and provides limits to ensure reliability
• Cortex implements vulnerable replication to ensure data is replicated across instances
• Cortex has upcoming projects such as Gateway, Down Sampling, Federated Rules, and Native Histogram
• There are plans to improve observability on the Cortex layer for cardinality

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• 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

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• Vertical sharding can be useful for Prometheus as well as Thanos.
• Sharding is implemented end-to-end from query execution to data retrieval from the store.
• Sharding queries across a fleet of Thanos queries allows for horizontal scaling.
• There is a proposal in upstream Thanos for grouping and aggregation queries.
• Contributing to Thanos is encouraged and the community is friendly.

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• The Alert Manager complements Grafana's data model and allows for grouping, routing, silencing, and time of day restrictions for alerts.
• Open source software is important for collaboration and giving back to the community.
• Improvements to the Alert Manager are being made through feedback and discussion within the community.
• Future plans include improving visibility in the notification pipeline and creating a historical view of alerts.
• The speaker emphasizes the value of the Alert Manager and encourages involvement in the DevOps community.