Infra & metrics
Cortex
open source / community (CNCF)
The original horizontally-scalable, multi-tenant Prometheus back-end that pioneered the design Mimir later forked.
- Category
- Infra & metrics
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Heavy
- Maturity
- Legacy
- Popularity
- Maintenance mode; community migrated to Mimir
The catch
Effectively superseded — the core maintainers left to build Mimir, so it's now a legacy pick rather than a new choice.
Monitors
MetricsServersK8s
Built for
SRE / DevOpsEnterprise