Chronix as Long Term Storage for Prometheus

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Prometheus keeps ~14 day retention so Chronix provides lossless long‑term storage by receiving Prometheus via remote_write into a small Go chronix-ingest that batches samples and writes chunked, gzip‑compressed protobufs into Solr. Papered benchmarks claim 98% compression vs CSV and 21 ms average query; a demo imports 112M samples (Prometheus 786 MB → Chronix 265 MB) and shows Grafana plots match while Prometheus drops old data. Chunk size controls disk vs query latency.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:30Current state of Prometheus
3. 5:55Time Series Database
4. 17:27Why use Chronix
5. 19:53Prometheus
6. 26:58Performance
7. 32:08Prometheus metrics

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