Sep 4, 2024
Aiven for Metrics is Now Available
There's a new metrics service in town – Aiven for Metrics provides Prometheus metrics powered by Thanos.
Aiven recently added a new service to our offerings: Aiven for Metrics is now in Early Availability. Similar to Aiven for M3, Aiven for Metrics is a Prometheus-compatible solution powered by Thanos, a CNCF project aimed at providing highly available Prometheus metrics with long term storage capabilities.
Familiar features in a brand new package
Aiven for Metrics is fully feature compatible with our existing Aiven for M3 offering. This means that in addition to it supporting PromQL queries, it provides the same in-console integrations to collect metrics from other Aiven services, and send those metrics to Aiven for Grafana with pre-built dashboards.
So where does it differ? Thanos has the potential for significant performance gains and cost savings over M3, something Aiven has experienced first hand. Last year, we began the process of migrating our own internal metrics from M3 to Thanos, and the results have been phenomenal. We authored a guest blog on Thanos.io to document our findings, and of particular note we found that for less than we were paying for 30 days of retention on M3 we were able to store 3 years worth of metrics in Thanos.
Get started with Aiven for Metrics
Aiven for Metrics is available for you to launch from the Aiven console. If you're currently using Aiven for M3 or Aiven for InfluxDB, we also provide in-console migration and replication tools so you can easily import existing metrics without losing any historical data.
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