January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
484 pages
11h 48m
English
The Prometheus framework is made up of several components, as illustrated in the following diagram:

As with all other monitoring frameworks, Prometheus relies on agents scraping statistics from the components of our system. Those agents are the exporters shown to the left of the diagram. Besides this, Prometheus adopts the pull model of metric collection, which is to say that it does not receive metrics passively, but actively pulls data from the metrics' endpoints on the exporters. If an application exposes a metric's endpoint, Prometheus is able to scrape that data as well. The default storage backend is an embedded ...
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