
Prometheus - Monitoring system & time series database
Designed for the cloud native world, Prometheus integrates with Kubernetes and other cloud and container managers to continuously discover and monitor your services.
Overview - Prometheus
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud . Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the …
Tutorials - Prometheus
Query log TLS encryption Tutorials Getting started with Prometheus Understanding metric types Instrumenting HTTP server written in Go Visualizing metrics using Grafana
Getting started - Prometheus
Prometheus collects metrics from targets by scraping metrics HTTP endpoints. Since Prometheus exposes data in the same manner about itself, it can also scrape and monitor its own health.
Download - Prometheus
Downloads for the latest releases of the Prometheus monitoring system and its major ecosystem components.
Querying basics - Prometheus
Prometheus provides a functional query language called PromQL (Prometheus Query Language) that lets the user select and aggregate time series data in real time.
How Non-Developers Can Contribute to Prometheus
Oct 30, 2025 · Recommend Prometheus to teams evaluating monitoring solutions. Every piece of content, every conference talk, every social media post expands Prometheus's reach and helps new …
Installation - Prometheus
Prometheus data is stored in /prometheus dir inside the container, so the data is cleared every time the container gets restarted. To save your data, you need to set up persistent storage (or bind mounts) …
Prometheus Agent Mode
The Agent mode optimizes Prometheus for the remote write use case. It disables querying, alerting, and local storage and replaces it with a customized TSDB WAL. Everything else stays the same: …
Frequently asked questions | Prometheus
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit with an active ecosystem. It is the only system directly supported by Kubernetes and the de facto standard across the cloud native …