Learn more

In this page we’re listing some external resources to learn more about the Cortex blocks storage.

Talks

Scaling Prometheus: How We Got Some Thanos Into Cortex

Articles

• How to switch Cortex from chunks to blocks storage (and why you won’t look back) (Oct 2020)
• Now GA: Cortex blocks storage for running Prometheus at scale with reduced operational complexity (Oct 2020)
• Scaling Prometheus: How we’re pushing Cortex blocks storage to its limit and beyond (Aug 2020)
• How blocks storage in Cortex reduces operational complexity for running Prometheus at massive scale (Jul 2020)