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• Prometheus is a popular project for short metric retention and visualization
• Thanos extends Prometheus to enable scaling, highly available setups, and long-term storage
• Thanos has multiple components for multi-cluster telemetry, remote writes, and multi-tenancy
• Thanos is prometheus compatible and has unlimited retention
• The four core components of Thanos are the sidecar, query component, store, and compact components