Prometheus

Prometheus, a CNCF open-source project, is a service monitoring system founded in 2012. It consists of monitoring, alerting, and a time-series database.

Prometheus' main features are:

• a user-defined multi-dimensional data model
• highly efficient data storage
• a powerful query language on multi-dimensional data (PromQL)
• time-series data are fetched through HTTP pull
• service discovery as well as static configuration
• visualization of metrics and dashboarding

History

• Nov 24, 2012: Prometheus was started at SoundCloud
• Jan 26, 2015: Public release as an open source project
• May 9, 2016: Joined Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Jul 18, 2016: Prometheus released 1.0.0
• Aug 25, 2016: First Prometheus Conference at Berlin
• Nov 7, 2017: Prometheus released 2.0.0

Website

https://prometheus.io

Source Code

https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus

Tech Docs

https://prometheus.io/docs/

Developer

SoundCloud

Country of Origin

DE

Start Year

2012

Project Type

Open Source

Written in

Go

Supported languages

Go

Licenses

Apache v2