CNCF Project Cortex v0.1 Released

Cortex, an open-source, horizontally-scalable, and highly-available clustered implementation of Prometheus, celebrated its first official release, led by Chris Marchbanks from Splunk, despite not introducing any new features, as users desired stamped versions. Initially developed over three years ago and already in production at companies like EA, Aspen Mesh, Mayadata, and Gojek, Cortex had previously followed a continuous deployment approach rather than a formal release cycle. The project, which is instrumental for Grafana Cloud's Hosted Prometheus and has helped accelerate the development of Grafana’s log aggregation system Loki, was accepted into the CNCF Sandbox and has seen contributions from over 50 individuals. As it continues to grow, Grafana Labs is enhancing Cortex’s scalability, integrating Prometheus’s TSDB for on-premises use, and improving cluster scalability processes, alongside plans to bring PromQL acceleration techniques to Prometheus and Thanos, making it an exciting time for those involved in developing distributed timeseries databases.