Prometheus
Metrics database that scrapes targets and evaluates alerting rules.
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Package managers
- Chocolatey
choco install prometheus - Homebrew
brew install prometheus
About Prometheus
Prometheus pulls numeric metrics from instrumented services on a schedule, stores them as time series with labelled dimensions and queries them with PromQL. Alerting rules evaluated against those series are routed to Alertmanager, which handles grouping, silencing and delivery.
Strengths
- Label-based data model and PromQL make ad-hoc questions easy to answer
- Pull model needs no agent configuration beyond exposing a metrics endpoint
Limitations
- Local storage is not clustered; long retention needs Thanos, Mimir or similar
- Pull model does not suit short-lived jobs without a push gateway
Details
- Pricing
- FreeThe open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and external services are separate.
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Developer
- The Prometheus Authors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted
- Best suited for
- Metrics database that scrapes targets and evaluates alerting rules
- Categories
- System monitoring
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (Self-Hosting & Homelab); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.