MyObservability

Prometheus

Prometheus focuses on collecting, storing, and querying time series metrics. It’s particularly well-suited for monitoring dynamic cloud environments and microservices architectures.

Architecture

Components

The Prometheus ecosystem consists of multiple components, many of which are optional:

• the main Prometheus server which scrapes and stores time series data
• client libraries for instrumenting application code
• a push gateway for supporting short-lived jobs
• special-purpose exporters for services like HAProxy, StatsD, Graphite, etc.
• an alertmanager to handle alerts
• various support tools