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		ChocolateGod on Nov 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prometheus 3.0 > We use Thanos to store metrics in self-hosted S3 (seaweedfs) with 30 days retention, aggressively downsample after 3 days. Any reason to not just use Mimir for this?

robinhoodexe on Nov 30, 2024 [–]

I can’t recall the reason for using thanos over mimir to be honest. I think thanos seemed like a good choice given it’s part of the kube-prometheus-stack community helm charts.

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