# thanos
**Licence:** Apache-2.0 | **Language:** Go | **Source:** https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos
## Role
Long-term Prometheus at scale
## Why it's here
Ships metrics to object storage and queries across multiple Prometheus instances.
## Running it
Started by `docker compose up -d` on port 10902.
```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/thanos.tar.gz -C ./sources
```