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Published inApr 2024
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William Hegedus
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William Hegedus

William Hegedus has worked in tech for over a decade in a variety of roles, culminating in site reliability engineering. He developed a keen interest in Prometheus and observability technologies during his time managing a 24/7 NOC environment and eventually became the first SRE at Linode, one of the foremost independent cloud providers. Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022, and now Will manages a team of SREs focused on building the internal observability platform for Akamai's Connected Cloud. His team is responsible for a global fleet of Prometheus servers spanning over two dozen data centers and ingesting millions of data points every second, in addition to operating a suite of other observability tools. Will is an open source advocate and contributor who has contributed code to Prometheus, Thanos, and many other CNCF projects related to Kubernetes and observability. He lives in central Virginia with his wonderful wife, four kids, three cats, two dogs, and a bearded dragon.
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Using Grafana Mimir

Grafana Labs’ Mimir project is a relative newcomer to the remote storage Prometheus ecosystem. Announced in 2022, Mimir is the spiritual successor to the popular Cortex project, which is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-sponsored project (as with Prometheus, Thanos, Kubernetes, and many more). It aims to be the most scalable and performant option available for time series storage.

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Is Cortex dead? Cortex is still under active development and is used extensively by numerous companies. If Mimir intrigues you, but its AGPLv3 license is off-putting, try out Cortex! It’ll still be a mostly similar experience and architecture.

Note that Mimir does not mention being the most efficient in its goals. If you approach Mimir thinking that you are going to see the same massive gains in memory and storage efficiency as VictoriaMetrics, you will be disappointed. However, you still can expect its storage efficiency to be about as good...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805125662

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William Hegedus

William Hegedus has worked in tech for over a decade in a variety of roles, culminating in site reliability engineering. He developed a keen interest in Prometheus and observability technologies during his time managing a 24/7 NOC environment and eventually became the first SRE at Linode, one of the foremost independent cloud providers. Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022, and now Will manages a team of SREs focused on building the internal observability platform for Akamai's Connected Cloud. His team is responsible for a global fleet of Prometheus servers spanning over two dozen data centers and ingesting millions of data points every second, in addition to operating a suite of other observability tools. Will is an open source advocate and contributor who has contributed code to Prometheus, Thanos, and many other CNCF projects related to Kubernetes and observability. He lives in central Virginia with his wonderful wife, four kids, three cats, two dogs, and a bearded dragon.
Read more about William Hegedus