Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time series database. It features a multi-dimensional data model with a powerful query language and integrates many aspects of systems and service monitoring: from the instrumentation of services over the collection and storage of metrics data, all the way to dashboarding and alerting. Native support for various service discovery mechanisms also make it particularly suitable for dynamic cloud-based environments. In this introduction, members of the Prometheus team explain the architecture of Prometheus and show its advantages over traditional monitoring systems.
Matt Layher is a Distributed Systems Engineer at Fastly, a member of the Prometheus team, and a regular contributor to a wide variety of open source networking applications and libraries written in Go.
Ganesh Vernekar is a Prometheus team member and recently graduated from IIT Hyderabad on Aug 2019. He started his dev journey with web at IITH in his early years and has been with Prometheus since he did GSoC in 2018. Currently hacking with Prometheus and Cortex at Grafana Labs. In... Read More →
