Thanos · FinOps Profile

Thanos Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Thanos: Thanos itself is free Apache 2.0 software; the FinOps surface is the underlying object storage (S3 / GCS / Azure Blob), compute, and egress that operators incur when running Thanos as long-term storage for Prometheus metrics.

Thanos Finops is the FinOps profile for Thanos on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 4 billable meters, billed in USD, on a on-demand cycle, and pricing category open source.

The profile maps 5 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include FinOps, FOCUS, Observability, and Open Source.

Category: Observability Pricing: Open Source Billing: On-Demand FOCUS v1.3
FinOpsFOCUSObservabilityOpen Source

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

Usage

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ProviderName
Thanos
PublisherName
Thanos contributors (CNCF)
ServiceCategory
Observability
ServiceName
Thanos

Meters

object_storage_bytes
Unit: GB-month
object_storage_requests
Unit: request
query_compute_hours
Unit: instance-hour
cross_az_egress
Unit: GB

Sources