cortex
by cortexproject
Cortex is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant long term storage solution for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics.
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Primary Use Case
Cortex is used to aggregate, store, and query large volumes of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics across multiple tenants in a highly available and scalable manner. It is ideal for organizations needing centralized, durable metric storage with multi-tenancy support for monitoring and security operations at scale.
- Horizontally scalable across multiple machines
- Highly available with data replication
- Multi-tenant data isolation and query support
- Long term storage support for S3, GCS, Swift, and Azure
- Integration with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics
Installation
- Visit the official documentation at https://cortexmetrics.io/docs/getting-started/ for detailed setup instructions
- Download or clone the repository from https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex
- Build Cortex using Go tooling or use pre-built binaries as per documentation
- Configure Cortex according to your environment using https://cortexmetrics.io/docs/configuration/
- Set up storage backend (S3, GCS, Swift, or Azure) for long term metric storage
- Deploy Cortex components in a cluster for horizontal scalability and high availability
- Integrate Cortex with SIEM platforms to enhance long-term metric storage and querying for security alerts.
- Leverage multi-tenancy to segregate metrics by environment or team, improving operational security visibility.
- Use Cortex's scalability to support large-scale security telemetry aggregation across distributed cloud environments.
- Combine Cortex with automated alerting tools to enable proactive detection and response workflows.
- Implement Cortex in purple team exercises to simulate metric-based detection evasion and response scenarios.
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