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Prometheus

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What is Prometheus?

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time-series database designed around labelled metrics and a pull-based collection model. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

It scrapes targets, evaluates PromQL queries and recording or alerting rules, and stores samples locally. Service discovery and federation support dynamic environments, while cardinality, retention and high availability require explicit design.

Primary purpose

Collect, query and alert on numerical service and infrastructure telemetry.

Typical environments
KubernetesCloud-native apps
Typical use cases
  • Kubernetes cluster monitoring
  • Time-series metrics collection
  • Alerting via Alertmanager
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