> wrapping prometheus and giving you that production readyness that they're claiming the OSS project won't give you out of the box
No! Prometheus is and has been production ready for many years. Cortex is a clustered/horizontally scalable implemention of the Prometheus APIs, and Cortex has just gone production ready. Sorry for the confusion.
But readiness depends somewhat on your use case. If you're on a multi-tenanted cluster and you don't want to explicit trust your users / admins, how do you stop them from messing with your metrics whilst allowing them to maintain their own?
I typically did it via github flow, some others used the operator to give us many proms, some others would just suggest it's missing features.
Indeed, I could probably word my example better though. Apologies if I were putting words in your mouth.
No! Prometheus is and has been production ready for many years. Cortex is a clustered/horizontally scalable implemention of the Prometheus APIs, and Cortex has just gone production ready. Sorry for the confusion.