Prometheus
Open source metrics and monitoring for your systems and services
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects and stores metrics as time series data. It features a multi-dimensional data model, a flexible query language called PromQL, and a pull-based collection model over HTTP. Originally built at SoundCloud in 2012, it is now a CNCF-graduated project maintained by a broad open-source community.
Prometheus scrapes metrics from instrumented targets via HTTP on a pull model, stores them locally as time series, and evaluates rules to generate alerts or aggregated metrics.
DevOps engineers, SREs, and developers running cloud-native or containerized workloads
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Launched
- 2012
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