notes on promscale deprecation

Author: danicc097

README.md

@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ change to it is validated and cascades down to:
 
 Additionally, it features OpenTelemetry in both browser (automatic and
 manual instrumentation) and backend services (manual instrumentation) via
-Jaeger, TimescaleDB and Promscale (certified storage backend).
+Jaeger, TimescaleDB and ~~Promscale~~ (discontinued, should look at options like
+`mimir`).
 
 ## Makefile alternative
 

docker/docker-compose.otel.yml

@@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ services:
   #   ports:
   #     - 9093:9093/tcp
 
-  # see https://github.com/timescale/promscale/tree/master/docker-compose
+  # see https://github.com/timescale/promscale/tree/master/docker-compose~
+  # IMPORTANT: should get rid of it, discontinued
+  # https://www.timescale.com/blog/important-news-about-promscale/
+  # may use e.g. mimir
   promscale:
     image: timescale/promscale:latest
     ports: