Description
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.
The project is written in Go and licensed under the Apache 2 License, with source code available on GitHub, and is a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, along with Kubernetes and Envoy.
Architecture
A typical monitoring platform with Prometheus is composed of multiple tools:
- Multiple exporters that typically run on the monitored host to export local metrics.
- Prometheus to centralize and store the metrics.
- Alertmanager to trigger alerts based on those metrics.
- Grafana to produce dashboards.
- PromQL is the query language used to create dashboards and alerts.
Website: prometheus.io
Repository: github.com/prometheus/prometheus
Operating system(s): Cross-platform
Written in: Go