Prometheus
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Cloudron
- Docker Hub
Features
- Performance Monitoring
- Hardware Monitoring
- Metrics
- Log storage
- Data monitoring
Prometheus News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Swift (programming language)
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Recent activities
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Runs behind Grafana in our monitoring stack, scraping node-exporter and cAdvisor across our containers. The pull-based model is simple to reason about and PromQL is genuinely powerful once it clicks, though the query syntax has a real learning curve compared to just writing SQL. One thing that caught us early: default retention and scrape intervals can eat disk faster than expected on a small VPS if you're not watching cardinality - worth tuning that before it becomes a problem rather than...
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What is Prometheus?
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open source project and maintained independently of any company.
Prometheus's main features are:
- A multi-dimensional data model (time series identified by metric name and key/value pairs).
- A flexible query language to leverage this dimensionality.
- No reliance on distributed storage; single server nodes are autonomous.
- Time series collection happens via a pull model over HTTP.
- Pushing time series is supported via an intermediary gateway.
- Targets are discovered via service discovery or static configuration.
- Multiple modes of graphing and dashboarding support.
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Comments and Reviews
Runs behind Grafana in our monitoring stack, scraping node-exporter and cAdvisor across our containers. The pull-based model is simple to reason about and PromQL is genuinely powerful once it clicks, though the query syntax has a real learning curve compared to just writing SQL. One thing that caught us early: default retention and scrape intervals can eat disk faster than expected on a small VPS if you're not watching cardinality - worth tuning that before it becomes a problem rather than after.
Simple. Fast. Scales fantastically. Lots of support. Not good for keeping historical data. No downsampling. Only good for real time data, seek other time series databases if you want to store with a specific timestamp.
A really good product, simple, powerful, the best metrics tool ... and ... open source free !!