Cortex Accepted in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox

FreshTracks.io Contributes to Open Source and Container Technology

Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the acceptance of Cortex, a multi-tenant distributed Prometheus, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud-native projects. FreshTracks.io provides a hosted-Prometheus solution focused on Intelligent monitoring and alerting for Kubernetes and is running Cortex in production to horizontally scale Prometheus to customers.

“At FreshTracks we believe in bringing the right data to the right people at the right time,” says Bob Cotton, co-founder, FreshTracks. “Cortex is at the heart of our offering providing multi-cluster and multi-cloud visibility to engineers and operators.”

With the ability to dynamically scale, FreshTracks is specifically designed to handle monitoring the short life cycles of Kubernetes clusters, containers, applications and services. FreshTracks collects and sends Prometheus metrics to the cloud so that users can see long-term trends without the overhead of running and maintaining Prometheus.

Cortex provides the long-term storage for Prometheus metrics when used as a remote write destination. In addition, it provides a horizontally scalable, Prometheus-compatible query API. As a key contributor and collaborator in the open source community, FreshTracks is committed to collaborating with and contributing to the Cortex community.

“The Cortex entry into the CNCF is exciting as it will provide the visibility and governance needed to ensure healthy growth of the ecosystem,” adds Cotton. “We believe strongly in the value of contributing and supporting the code base and community.”

Cortex originally developed at Weaveworks, is also used in production by organizations like Grafana Labs and Electronic Arts.

FreshTracks is a Silver Sponsor at the upcoming KubeCon North America 2018 event and is a frequent presenter at open source community events.