[ChocolateGod]

> 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]

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.