7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Thanos first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we migrated from a very expensive Thanos to a VM cluster backed by HDDs, and saved a lot”
regret · production · vulkoingim · 2025-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Thanos as a querier is very simple to setup, and is very low maintenance.”
endorse · production · lawrjone · 2020-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Thanos to provide the observability features (monitoring in particular) to Workers... Thanos helps us with achieving the necessary scale and retention for a hosted platform”
endorse · production · mwitkow · 2018-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Chuck a set of random containers in prod -> Deploy helm chart -> Migrate to Thanos”
neutral · production · yarekt · 2025-04-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched metrics and logs from an Elastic stack to Prometheus/Thanos/Loki/Grafana about two years ago.”
neutral · production · 2 yr · parliament32 · 2025-03-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Thanos to store metrics in self-hosted S3 (seaweedfs) with 30 days retention”
neutral · production · robinhoodexe · 2024-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Just to name the ones we use at Helsinki City.”
neutral · production · gatestone · 2021-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?