Cortex completes OSTIF security audit
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Cortex. Cortex functions as a long-term, multi-tenant scalable open source storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Thanks to Quarkslab and…
With no significant project update available in time for CloudNativeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has stretched its incubator to 21 by welcoming monitoring projects Thanos and Cortex in. The new status and the associated determination…
TOC welcomes Cortex as an incubating project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Cortex as an incubation-level hosted project. Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus. “Cortex is an excellent addition to the CNCF…
Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Prometheus is one of the standard-bearing open-source solutions for monitoring and observability. From its humble origins at SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus quickly garnered widespread adoption and later became one of the first CNCF projects and just the second to…
CNCF to host Cortex in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced acceptance of Cortex, a multitenant Prometheus-as-a-Service, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Developed to scale Prometheus in a multitenant fashion,…
How to gain insights from Istio by leveraging tools like Prometheus, Jaeger and Cortex
Istio integrates with a rich set of tools that can add tracing, telemetry, logging and other functionalities to your microservices environment. This session will focus on how a myriad of tools, including several CNCF projects, work…
K8gb becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubernetes Global Balancer (K8gb) as a CNCF incubating project. About K8gb K8gb is an open source, cloud native Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) solution designed specifically…
CNCF Announces Schedule for Debut Observability Summit Europe
Summit gathers practitioners, contributors and engineers to advance open observability standards and practices Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the…
Confidential Containers becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Confidential Containers as a CNCF incubating project. About Confidential Containers Confidential Containers addresses the need to protect data in use within cloud native environments. While data…