Prometheus

Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

Prometheus' main distinguishing features as compared to other monitoring systems are:

• a multi-dimensional data model (timeseries defined by metric name and set of key/value dimensions)
• a flexible query language to leverage this dimensionality
• no dependency on distributed storage; single server nodes are autonomous
• timeseries collection happens via a pull model over HTTP
• pushing timeseries is supported via an intermediary gateway
• targets are discovered via service discovery or static configuration
• multiple modes of graphing and dashboarding support
• support for hierarchical and horizontal federation

History

• Nov 24, 2012: Prometheus was started at SoundCloud
• Jan 26, 2015: Public release as an open source project
• May 9, 2016: Joined Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Jul 18, 2016: Prometheus released 1.0.0
• Aug 25, 2016: First Prometheus Conference at Berlin
• Nov 7, 2017: Prometheus released 2.0.0

Website

https://prometheus.io

Source Code

https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus

Tech Docs

https://prometheus.io/docs/

Developer

SoundCloud

Country of Origin

DE

Start Year

2012

Project Type

Open Source

Written in

Go

Supported languages

Go

Licenses

Apache v2