diff --git a/.env b/.env
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..be46bc3de7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+CEPH_IMAGE=rhcsdashboard/ceph-rpm:main
+CEPH_REPO_DIR=/home/ankushbehl/work/ceph/ceph
+CEPH_PROXY_HOST_PORT=4200
+CEPHDASHBOARD_URL_HOST_PORT=11000
+# Optional: a custom build directory other than default one ($CEPH_REPO_DIR/build)
+CEPH_CUSTOM_BUILD_DIR=
+CEPH_E2E_IMAGE=rhcsdashboard/ceph-e2e:nautilus
+
+CEPH_CONTAINER_CPUS=
+CEPH_CONTAINER_MEM_LIMIT=
+
+HOST_CCACHE_DIR=
+
+GRAFANA_HOST_PORT=3000
+#GRAFANA_IMAGE=
+
+# >=pacific 
+GRAFANA_DASHBOARDS_DIR=monitoring/ceph-mixin/dashboards_out
+PROMETHEUS_ALERTS_DIR=monitoring/ceph-mixin
+# <pacific
+#GRAFANA_DASHBOARDS_DIR=monitoring/grafana/dashboards
+#PROMETHEUS_ALERTS_DIR=monitoring/prometheus/alerts
+
+PROMETHEUS_HOST_PORT=9090
+#PROMETHEUS_IMAGE=
+THANOS_IMAGE=thanosio/thanos:main-2023-10-16-77fac93
+NODE_EXPORTER_HOST_PORT=9100
+#NODE_EXPORTER_IMAGE=
+ALERTMANAGER_HOST_PORT=9093
+#ALERTMANAGER_IMAGE=
+KEYCLOAK_HOST_HTTP_PORT=8080
+KEYCLOAK_HOST_HTTPS_PORT=8443
+#KEYCLOAK_IMAGE=
+HAPROXY_HOST_HTTP_PORT=80
+HAPROXY_HOST_HTTPS_PORT=443
+#HAPROXY_IMAGE=
+
+CEPH2_IMAGE=rhcsdashboard/ceph-rpm:main
+CEPH2_REPO_DIR=/home/ankushbehl/work/ceph/ceph2/ceph
+CEPH2_PROXY_HOST_PORT=4202
+CEPH2_HOST_PORT=11002
+CEPH2_CUSTOM_BUILD_DIR=
+CEPH2_E2E_IMAGE=rhcsdashboard/ceph-e2e:nautilus
+
+# Development options
+CEPH_DEBUG=0
+DASHBOARD_DEV_SERVER=1
+DASHBOARD_SSL=1
+DASHBOARD_URL=
+RGW_MULTISITE=1
+
+# set this to a downstream product
+# note: multiple builds are not supported
+#DOWNSTREAM_BUILD=ibm
+
+# Sanity checks' options
+#APPLITOOLS_API_KEY=
+CHECK_MYPY=1
+
+# vstart.sh env. vars.
+FS=0
+MDS=3
+MGR=1
+MON=3
+#MON_MAX_PG_PER_OSD=2000
+NFS=0
+OSD=3
+RGW=2
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 9727a603737..1636f5ebc81 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -121,6 +121,37 @@ services:
             - ./docker/prometheus:/etc/prometheus:Z
             - ${CEPH_REPO_DIR}/${PROMETHEUS_ALERTS_DIR:-monitoring/ceph-mixin}:/etc/prometheus/alerts:Z
 
+    thanos-sidecar:
+        image: ${THANOS_IMAGE}
+        container_name: thanos-sidecar
+        hostname: thanos-sidecar
+        volumes_from:
+          - prometheus:rw
+        command:
+          - "sidecar"
+          - "--tsdb.path=/prometheus"
+          - "--prometheus.url=http://prometheus:9090"
+        expose:
+          - 10901
+          - 10902
+        depends_on:
+          - prometheus
+
+    thanos-querier:
+        image: ${THANOS_IMAGE}
+        container_name: thanos-querier
+        hostname: thanos-querier
+        command:
+          - "query"
+          - "--store=thanos-sidecar:10901"
+        expose:
+          - 10902
+          - 10901
+        ports:
+          - "10902:10902"
+        depends_on:
+          - thanos-sidecar
+
     node-exporter:
         image: ${NODE_EXPORTER_IMAGE:-prom/node-exporter:v1.5.0}
         container_name: node-exporter
diff --git a/docker/grafana/provisioning/datasources/prometheus.yml b/docker/grafana/provisioning/datasources/prometheus.yml
index 1b52e798ab3..6910e092702 100644
--- a/docker/grafana/provisioning/datasources/prometheus.yml
+++ b/docker/grafana/provisioning/datasources/prometheus.yml
@@ -11,3 +11,10 @@ datasources:
     orgId: 1
     url: http://prometheus:9090
     editable: true
+
+  - name: Thanos
+    type: prometheus
+    access: proxy
+    orgId: 1
+    url: http://thanos-querier:10902
+    editable: true
diff --git a/docker/prometheus/ceph-targets.yml b/docker/prometheus/ceph-targets.yml
index c0114b2912f..a60aa4c8e19 100644
--- a/docker/prometheus/ceph-targets.yml
+++ b/docker/prometheus/ceph-targets.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 [
     {
         "targets": [ "ceph:9283" ],
-        "labels": {}
+        "labels": {
+          cluster: "cluster1"
+        }
     },
     {
         "targets": [ "ceph2:9283" ],
         "labels": {}
     }
-]
\ No newline at end of file
+]
diff --git a/docker/prometheus/prometheus.yml b/docker/prometheus/prometheus.yml
index 670feca365c..14ec519640b 100644
--- a/docker/prometheus/prometheus.yml
+++ b/docker/prometheus/prometheus.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 global:
   scrape_interval: 5s
   evaluation_interval: 5s
-
+    cluster: cluster1
 scrape_configs:
   - job_name: 'node-exporter'
     file_sd_configs: