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Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.

From thanos 0.41.0-r15 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running thanos --help (exit 0). permalink

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usage: thanos [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]

A block storage based long-term storage for Prometheus.


Flags:
  -h, --[no-]help          Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
      --[no-]version       Show application version.
      --log.level=info     Log filtering level.
      --log.format=logfmt  Log format to use. Possible options: logfmt or json.
      --tracing.config-file=<file-path>
                           Path to YAML file with tracing configuration. See format details:
                           https://thanos.io/tip/thanos/tracing.md/#configuration
      --tracing.config=<content>
                           Alternative to 'tracing.config-file' flag (mutually exclusive).
                           Content of YAML file with tracing configuration. See format details:
                           https://thanos.io/tip/thanos/tracing.md/#configuration
      --[no-]enable-auto-gomemlimit
                           Enable go runtime to automatically limit memory consumption.
      --auto-gomemlimit.ratio=0.9
                           The ratio of reserved GOMEMLIMIT memory to the detected maximum container
                           or system memory.

Commands:
help [<command>...]
    Show help.

sidecar [<flags>]
    Sidecar for Prometheus server.

store [<flags>]
    Store node giving access to blocks in a bucket provider. Now supported GCS, S3, Azure, Swift,
    Tencent COS and Aliyun OSS.

query [<flags>]
    Query node exposing PromQL enabled Query API with data retrieved from multiple store nodes.

rule [<flags>]
    Ruler evaluating Prometheus rules against given Query nodes, exposing Store API and storing old
    blocks in bucket.

compact [<flags>]
    Continuously compacts blocks in an object store bucket.

tools bucket verify [<flags>]
    Verify all blocks in the bucket against specified issues. NOTE: Depending on issue this might
    take time and will need downloading all specified blocks to disk.

tools bucket ls [<flags>]
    List all blocks in the bucket.

tools bucket inspect [<flags>]
    Inspect all blocks in the bucket in detailed, table-like way.

tools bucket web [<flags>]
    Web interface for remote storage bucket.

tools bucket replicate [<flags>]
    Replicate data from one object storage to another. NOTE: Currently it works only with Thanos
    blocks (meta.json has to have Thanos metadata).

tools bucket downsample [<flags>]
    Continuously downsamples blocks in an object store bucket.

tools bucket cleanup [<flags>]
    Cleans up all blocks marked for deletion.

tools bucket mark --id=ID --marker=MARKER [<flags>]
    Mark block for deletion or no-compact in a safe way. NOTE: If the compactor is currently running
    compacting same block, this operation would be potentially a noop.

tools bucket rewrite --id=ID [<flags>]
    Rewrite chosen blocks in the bucket, while deleting or modifying series Resulted block has
    modified stats in meta.json. Additionally compaction.sources are altered to not confuse readers
    of meta.json. Instead thanos.rewrite section is added with useful info like old sources and
    deletion requests. NOTE: It's recommended to turn off compactor while doing this operation. If
    the compactor is running and touching exactly same block that is being rewritten, the resulted
    rewritten block might only cause overlap (mitigated by marking overlapping block manually for
    deletion) and the data you wanted to rewrite could already part of bigger block.

    Use FILESYSTEM type of bucket to rewrite block on disk (suitable for vanilla Prometheus)
    After rewrite, it's caller responsibility to delete or mark source block for deletion to
    avoid overlaps. WARNING: This procedure is *IRREVERSIBLE* after certain time (delete delay),
    so do backup your blocks first.

tools bucket retention [<flags>]
    Retention applies retention policies on the given bucket. Please make sure no compactor is
    running on the same bucket at the same time.

tools bucket upload-blocks [<flags>]
    Upload blocks push blocks from the provided path to the object storage.

tools rules-check --rules=RULES
    Check if the rule files are valid or not.

receive [<flags>]
    Accept Prometheus remote write API requests and write to local tsdb.

query-frontend [<flags>]
    Query frontend command implements a service deployed in front of queriers to improve query
    parallelization and caching.
Options (6)
OptionDescriptionSource
-hShow context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).help
--log.level infoLog filtering level.help
--log.format logfmtLog format to use.help
--tracing.config-file file-pathPath to YAML file with tracing configuration.help
--tracing.config contentAlternative to 'tracing.config-file' flag (mutually exclusive).help
--auto-gomemlimit.ratio 0.9The ratio of reserved GOMEMLIMIT memory to the detected maximum container or system memory.help

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