Overview

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for reliability and scalability. It collects and stores metrics as time series data, enabling powerful querying and real-time alerting.

Key Features

• Time Series Database: Efficient storage of metrics data
• PromQL: Powerful query language for metrics
• Service Discovery: Dynamic target discovery
• Alerting: Flexible alert definitions and routing

Use Cases

• Infrastructure monitoring
• Application performance monitoring
• Container and microservices monitoring
• Real-time alerting systems