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Prometheus

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Creator
SoundCloud (Matt T. Proud, Julius Volz)
Released
Owner
CNCF
Type
Monitoring / TSDB
License
Apache 2.0
Website
Source
github.com/prometheus
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Open source system for metrics — pulls numbers from endpoints and stores them in a time-series database.

Strong in Kubernetes environments. PromQL is the query language. Paired with Grafana for visualisation and Alertmanager for alerts. The industry standard for cloud-native observability.

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