Product Information
What is Prometheus?
Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit, originally built at SoundCloud. Since its launch in 2012, Prometheus has been adopted by many companies and organizations, with a vibrant developer and user community. It’s now a standalone open-source project maintained independently of any company. Prometheus’ key features include:
A multi-dimensional data model (time series identified by metric name and key/value pairs).
A flexible query language leveraging this dimensionality.
No dependency on distributed storage; single server nodes are autonomous.
Time series collection via HTTP pull model.
Support for pushing time series via intermediary gateways.
Target discovery via service discovery or static configuration.
Multiple graphing and dashboard support modes.
How to use Prometheus?
Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit that helps users monitor applications, systems, and services by collecting, storing, and querying multi-dimensional time-series data, enabling alerts and visualizations.
Core Functions of Prometheus
Performance monitoring
Hardware Monitoring
Log Storage
Metrics
Data Monitoring
Usage Scenarios of Prometheus
- Monitor the operational status of applications, systems, and services.
- Generate precise alerts based on time-series data.
- Create data visualization charts and dashboards.
- Discover and continuously monitor services in cloud-native environments like Kubernetes.
- Collect and query various metric data.
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