May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 36m
English
To attain a global view using Thanos, we must first understand some of its components. Thanos, like Prometheus, is written in Go and ships a single binary (for each platform/architecture) that behaves differently depending on the provided sub-command in its execution. In our case, we'll be expanding on sidecar and Query components.
In short, the sidecar makes data from a Prometheus instance available to other Thanos components, while the Query component is an API-compatible replacement for Prometheus that distributes queries it receives to other Thanos components, such as sidecars or even other Query ...
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