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Deploying and Configuring an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Prometheus is a metrics-based monitoring and alerting system initially built at SoundCloud. It is now an open source project, and has been part of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation since 2016. It focuses on doing a few things well: it collects and stores metrics as time-series data, and it has a powerful, highly dimensional data model and query language.

In this chapter, we will discuss Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) and Amazon Managed Grafana (AMG). AMP is a Prometheus-compatible monitoring service, and you can use the same APIs and query language you are used to for monitoring your workloads. It is highly available, using multiple availability zones for deployment. ...

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