Prometheus

What is Prometheus?

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. It's now a standalone project and a graduated member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Why We Use Prometheus

Prometheus provides robust observability:

• Multi-dimensional Data: Labels for flexible querying and aggregation
• PromQL: Powerful query language for metrics analysis
• Pull Model: Reliable metric collection via HTTP scraping
• Service Discovery: Automatic target discovery in dynamic environments
• Alerting: Integrated alerting with Alertmanager

Our Prometheus Expertise

We implement comprehensive monitoring with Prometheus:

• Metric Design: Custom metrics and instrumentation strategies
• Infrastructure Monitoring: Node, container, and Kubernetes metrics
• Application Metrics: Business and performance instrumentation
• Alert Rules: Intelligent alerting with proper thresholds
• Federation: Multi-cluster and hierarchical setups

When to Choose Prometheus

Prometheus excels for:

• Cloud-native and containerized environments
• Kubernetes monitoring and alerting
• Microservices observability
• Teams wanting open-source monitoring
• Time-series metric collection at scale