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Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Who gets credit for open source success? Like so many winning projects, Weaveworks’ Cortex is the result of a long and winding chain of open source inspiration and innovation Credit: Dreamstime Over 2000 years ago the Roman historian Tacitus observed that “Victory is claimed by all”—or, as some translations put it, ...

To get to that Prometheus service a number of different companies and open source communities played a part: SoundCloud, which gave birth to Prometheus; Hyperic, the inspiration behind Cortex (by way of Scope); SpringSource, which recognized the business value in monitoring. Oh, and at the center of everything, Weaveworks, the company perhaps best known for GitOps but which also created Cortex. Buried in the history of Cortex is a lesson in apportioning open source credit. The tl;dr? It’s com...