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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.

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  • Open Source

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  • Linux
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  • Docker Hub
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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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Comments and Reviews

   
Hamze Zare
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Founder at fanpino

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.

GFBatmgN
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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.

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csaltos
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A really good product, simple, powerful, the best metrics tool ... and ... open source free !!

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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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