Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus
Some of the home automation projects featured in this book require monitoring and alerting capabilities. For example, projects in Chapter 4, Networking a Temperature Monitor, provide data that’s best viewed when plotted over time, while Chapter 6, Lighting the Weather, requires alerting capabilities. Instead of developing a custom solution to support these applications only, let’s roll out an instance of Prometheus, a popular monitoring and alerting solution, using containers on your Raspberry Pi.
Prometheus[38] is a monitoring system and time-series database widely used to monitor IT infrastructure, particularly container-based workloads. Prometheus is developed using Go, and its flexibility and ...
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