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01. Prometheus Introduction

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Deekshith SN edited this page Mar 3, 2022 · 2 revisions

What is Prometheus?

Prometheus is a time series database. Prometheus is designed to monitor targets. Servers, databases, standalone virtual machines, pretty much everything can be monitored with Prometheus.

When does it fit?

  • Prometheus works well for recording any purely numeric time series
  • It fits both machine-centric monitoring and highly dynamic service-oriented architectures.
  • Prometheus is designed for reliability, during an system outage it allow you to quickly diagnose problems. 
  • Each Prometheus server is standalone, does not depend on any network storage or other remote services.

When does it not fit?

  • If you need 100% accuracy, such as for per-request billing, Prometheus is not a good choice

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For more information refer :- https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/

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