In 2021, Goutham Veeramachaneni, a maintainer for Cortex, discussed the potential for Cortex to become a viable database solution for Internet of Things (IoT) data. Originally developed as a scalable, long-term storage solution for Prometheus, Cortex is built around a time series database (TSDB) that offers high scalability and cost efficiency. Despite its strengths, Cortex's current protocol limitations hinder its suitability for IoT, prompting the creation of influx2cortex, a write proxy to support various protocols. Veeramachaneni highlights the importance of addressing out-of-order data handling, which remains a challenge, and expresses interest in expanding Cortex's use cases beyond just Prometheus long-term storage to include IoT applications. The aim is to refine Cortex's capabilities by experimenting with IoT homelabs and engaging with users, ultimately hoping to attract both hobbyists and serious customers to use Grafana Cloud for IoT data storage and analysis.