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title: "Discussion on \"[EN] Setting up Prometheus and Thanos to use S3 as storage backend\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"[EN] Setting up Prometheus and Thanos to use S3 as storage backend\". tl;dr — Prometheus is great at scraping and querying, but it was never designed to be your long-term storage. Once my TSDB grew to 311 GB and the disk hit 87%, I needed a way out that didn't mean buyi"
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# [\[EN\] Setting up Prometheus and Thanos to use S3 as storage backend](https://syaifuddin.hashnode.dev/en-setting-up-prometheus-and-thanos-to-use-s3-as-storage-backend?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

tl;dr — Prometheus is great at scraping and querying, but it was never designed to be your long-term storage. Once my TSDB grew to 311 GB and the disk hit 87%, I needed a way out that didn't mean buyi

Jun 9 · 6 min read · syaifuddin.hashnode.dev  
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Started my IT career as a Technical Support at an Indonesian web hosting provider, then progressed through various roles as a Linux SysAdmin, Network Engineer, Product Designer, and DevOps Engineer. I moved to a SaaS company and since then I’ve built hands-on experience mainly with AWS and GCP and work daily with popular cloud native tools.

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