Prometheus

About Prometheus

Prometheus is the standard for cloud-native metrics collection. It uses a pull-based model and its own query language (PromQL) for powerful metric analysis.

Key Features

• Pull-based collection
• PromQL query language
• Time-series storage
• Alertmanager
• Service discovery
• CNCF graduated

Prometheus is the foundation of cloud-native monitoring. Originally built at SoundCloud and now a CNCF graduated project, it defines how modern infrastructure collects and queries metrics. Prometheus scrapes metrics endpoints at regular intervals, stores time-series data efficiently, and provides PromQL — a powerful query language for slicing, aggregating, and alerting on metrics. Paired with Grafana for visualization and Alertmanager for notification routing, Prometheus forms the backbone of the open-source monitoring stack used by the majority of Kubernetes deployments.

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