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Marco Pracucci

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Marco is a Grafana Mimir maintainer. He contributed to building some of the Grafana Mimir core features, like blocks storage, query sharding and scalable compactor. His current focus is on further simplifying the Mimir operability at any scale.

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Marco Pracucci · 6 Jul 2023 · 13 min read

Breaking the memory barrier: How Grafana Mimir's store-gateway overcame out-of-memory errors

Grafana Mimir

Marco Pracucci · 15 Apr 2022 · 3 min read

Video: Get started with Grafana Mimir in minutes

Learn how to set up Grafana Mimir, add recording rules and alerts, and how Grafana Mimir handles an outage.

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Marco Pracucci · 8 Apr 2022 · 16 min read

How we scaled our new Prometheus TSDB Grafana Mimir to 1 billion active series

To make sure that Grafana Mimir could support such a high scale of metrics, we performed extensive load testing and optimized performance where we...

Grafana Mimir

Prometheus

Marco Pracucci · 28 Jan 2021 · 6 min read

How we live-migrated massive Cortex clusters to blocks storage with zero impact to Grafana Cloud...

Marco Pracucci · 23 Dec 2020 · 4 min read

Cortex 2020 year in review

Mimir

Marco Pracucci · 6 Oct 2020 · 2 min read

Now GA: Cortex blocks storage for running Prometheus at scale with reduced operational complexity

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Marco Pracucci · 12 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

Scaling Prometheus: How we’re pushing Cortex blocks storage to its limit and beyond

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Prometheus

Marco Pracucci · 29 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

How blocks storage in Cortex reduces operational complexity for running Prometheus at massive scale

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Prometheus

Marco Pracucci · 16 Jul 2020 · 7 min read

How the Cortex and Thanos projects collaborate to make scaling Prometheus better for all

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Breaking the memory barrier: How Grafana Mimir's store-gateway overcame out-of-memory errors

Video: Get started with Grafana Mimir in minutes

How we scaled our new Prometheus TSDB Grafana Mimir to 1 billion active series

How we live-migrated massive Cortex clusters to blocks storage with zero impact to Grafana Cloud...

Cortex 2020 year in review

Now GA: Cortex blocks storage for running Prometheus at scale with reduced operational complexity

Scaling Prometheus: How we’re pushing Cortex blocks storage to its limit and beyond

How blocks storage in Cortex reduces operational complexity for running Prometheus at massive scale

How the Cortex and Thanos projects collaborate to make scaling Prometheus better for all