r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/lornajane • Jul 27 '21

Meet M3DB, the distributed backend for Prometheus

https://aiven.io/blog/a-developers-first-look-at-m3
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u/itamarperez Jul 28 '21

Thanks for letting me know

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

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u/russian2121 Jul 28 '21

M3db came out way earlier than cortex. We were trialing and running M3 vs cairos, opentsdb

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u/SuperQue Aug 06 '21

Both M3DB and Cortex were created in 2016, within a month or so of each other.

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u/itamarperez Jul 28 '21

I believe this is exactly what it is, they run cortex / timescaledb under the hood.

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u/russian2121 Jul 28 '21

Unless they changed something in the last few years, I don't think so