This component, at the time of writing, is still very experimental. However, as promised in the Remote write and read section of this chapter, this component is an excellent example of what remote write is all about, so we decided to show you what it can do. It acts as a target for Prometheus remote write requests, and stores received samples locally. The receiver also implements a StoreAPI endpoint, so it has the ability to act as a store node. Finally, it can also ship blocks to object storage, just like sidecar.
To make more sense of what all of this means, let's explore two scenarios.
A Prometheus server will, by default, generate a block every two hours. Even using Thanos sidecar with block shipping, there's no way for ...
