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Published inApr 2024
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ISBN-139781805125662
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William Hegedus
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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In this chapter, we went through all of the Thanos components that are available to gain a greater understanding of the comprehensive suite of features offered by the Thanos project.

We learned how Thanos Sidecar enables long-term storage of metrics in object storage and distributed querying through Thanos Query, how Thanos Compactor operates on those uploaded TSDB blocks in object storage to compact and downsample them, and how Thanos Store retrieves them from object storage on-demand for queries.

We saw how Thanos Query enables distributed querying of metrics from the various components that implement Thanos’s gRPC StoreAPI, and how Thanos Query Frontend enables more efficient use of Thanos Query instances through caching, query sharding, and splitting.

We utilized Thanos Ruler so that we could evaluate Prometheus alerts and rules across all endpoints connected to a Thanos Query instance.

Finally, we learned about and deployed Thanos Receiver so that we...

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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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