Thats the "microservices" mode - you can run it as a single process and the architecture becomes super boring.

Its like looking at the module interdependencies of reasonably large piece of software; of course its going to look complicated.

According to Cortex docs [1], a single-process Cortex isn't production ready. It is intended for development and testing only.

[1] https://cortexmetrics.io/docs/configuration/single-process-c...