Cortex: case studies over time

6 case studies across 5 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "cortex"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Cortex, Grafana Labs, HashiCorp, Itaú Unibanco, Splunk, Weaveworks

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)

The Great Cardinality Disasters of Our Time - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks & Chris Marchbanks, Splunk — Weaveworks, Splunk

Weaveworks and Splunk engineers recount real Prometheus high-cardinality disasters and lessons learned.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual

Scaling Prometheus: How We Got Some Thanos Into Cortex - Thor Hansen, HashiCorp & Marco Pracucci — HashiCorp

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021

Better Scalability & More Isolation? The Cortex “Shuffle Sharding” Story - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs — Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs tells how shuffle sharding in Cortex improved scalability and tenant isolation.

Building a Community: How Cortex Went from a Vendor Project to a Community - Goutham Veeramachaneni

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Show Me the Metrics: How a Huge Bank Does Observability with Multi-Tenancy... - Inacio & Costa — Itaú Unibanco

A large bank describes running multi-tenant metrics observability at scale for its own teams.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

Preventing S3 Cost Storms: Applying Cortex’s Efficiency Lessons to I/O-Heav... A. Fishman-Lichterman — Cortex

Applies Cortex's lessons on preventing S3 cost spikes to I/O-heavy workloads.