What is Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source system for monitoring and alerting, originally designed at SoundCloud. Since its beginning in 2012, several corporations and organizations have adopted Prometheus very largely, and therefore the project incorporates a terribly active developer and user community. it’s currently a standalone open supply project and maintained severally of any company.

Features Of Prometheus

Prometheus’s main features are:

• A multi-dimensional knowledge model with statistic knowledge known by metric name and key/value pairs
• PromQL, a versatile command language to leverage this spatial property
• Time series assortment happens via a pull model over communications protocol
• Multiple modes of graphing and dashboarding support
• Targets square measure discovered via service discovery or static configuration

Components Of Prometheus

The Prometheus scheme consists of multiple parts, several of that are optional

• The main Prometheus server that scrapes and stores statistic knowledge
• Special exporters for services like HAP Roxy, StatsD, Graphite, etc.
• A push entranceway for supporting ephemeral jobs
• An alert manager to handle alerts