daviziko9

My kids only know this way of tying it, I was surprised how easy they learnt it vs what other parents refer to me for more traditional ways

I use my pinky or ring finger to apply pressure on the base knot

We were struggling with Cortex a couple years ago, then we tried VictoriaMetrics and haven't look back. It goes pretty much unattended with just monitoring disk space to make sure we still have room to continue pouring in metrics. When a component crashes (not often) it recovers pretty much without noticing.

Agree with you that VictoriaMetrics works like a charm: fast, easy to configure, easy to recover from components crashes (last time I checked Cortex, it was a nightmare to recover from the ingestors). For me, it is the better solution for long term storage Prometheus if you come from a clean state.

But Grafana labs, employ lots of people that have worked on Cortex since its inception at weaveworks, and has developed strong in-house knowledge about it so Grafana is fully commited to Cortex (now Mimir) and have developed derivatives for logs (Loki) and traces (Tempo) heavily based on the Cortex model.