Cortex

Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant Prometheus backend with blocks storage.

Provider: default
Kind: Time-series database
Category: Data
Official docs: https://cortexmetrics.io/docs/blocks-storage/

Properties · 5 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
blockRangeHours · component property	integer	—	no	2	inherited
compression	enum	none \| gorilla \| other	no	other	▸ gorilla
downsampling	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
labelIndex	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
multiTenant · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
replicationFactor · component property	integer	—	no	3	inherited
retentionRawDays	integer	—	no	—	inherited
tiers	enum	single \| hot-cold \| hot-warm-cold	no	single	▸ hot-cold

Rules that apply · 0

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nodes:
  - { id: "cortex", component: "cortex" }

Other Time-series database products · 23

Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Cortex: horizontally scalable, multi-tenant Prometheus backend. Per "Blocks Storage",
3# each series is held by 3 ingesters, TSDB blocks cut every 2h are shipped to an object
4# store, and no downsampling is performed.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "cortex"
8kind: "timeseries-database"
9provider: "default"
10docs: "https://cortexmetrics.io/docs/blocks-storage/"
11defaults:
12  downsampling: false
13  tiers: "hot-cold"
14  labelIndex: true
15  compression: "gorilla"
16  managed: false
17properties:
18  replicationFactor:
19    type: "integer"
20    default: 3
21  blockRangeHours:
22    type: "integer"
23    default: 2
24  multiTenant:
25    type: "boolean"
26    default: true

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/cortex.md