# Thanos: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 15 judge labels across 4 categories by 8 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/thanos

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Time series databases](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/time-series-databases/index.md) | 0% | 11 | 0% | 11 |
| [Telemetry pipelines](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/telemetry-pipelines/index.md) | 0% | 53 | 0% | 2 |
| [Infrastructure monitoring](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/infrastructure-monitoring/index.md) | 0% | 61 | 0% | 1 |
| [Observability platforms](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/observability-platforms/index.md) | 0% | 67 | 100% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Best for: Monitoring and alerting use cases ... Cons: Limited long-term storage capabilities" (Mistral Small, Time series DBs)
- "Always pair Prometheus with a long-term remote-storage solution like Thanos" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Time series DBs)
- "Not a database itself; it's a sidecar for Prometheus." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Time series DBs)

## And against it

- "self-hosted Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex at massive scale ... requires significant engineering overhead" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Observability)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Thanos, from 22 of the 38 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- influxdata.com: 13
- github.com: 12
- tigerdata.com: 9
- db-engines.com: 7
- g2.com: 6
- clickhouse.com: 5
- mgsoftware.nl: 5
- questdb.com: 5
- sourceforge.net: 5
- victoriametrics.com: 5

### Pages cited

- https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/time+series+dbms: 7
- https://influxdata.com/comparison: 7
- https://github.com/ismanf/just-system-design/blob/main/04-databases/time-series-databases.md: 6
- https://influxdata.com/learn/what-is-time-series-database: 6
- https://mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-time-series-databases: 5
- https://questdb.com/blog/best-time-series-databases: 4
- https://spyro-soft.com/blog/industry-4-0/choosing-the-best-time-series-database-for-your-iot-needs-a-comparison: 4
- https://timestored.com/data/top-timeseries-databases: 4

## In its own words

What Thanos's own pages state, read 2026-10-05. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. (https://thanos.io/)
- Integrations claimed: 5 (https://thanos.io/)
- Customers named: Adfinis, Adform, Adobe, Aiven, Amadeus, Arlo, Authzed, Banco do Brasil

## What it publishes

Every page thanos.io exposes, read 2026-09-29: 2379 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 8 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.