Service discovery systems
As the number of services grows, it becomes harder and harder to tie everything together – both in terms of services being correctly configured to contact each other, as well as operators having visibility of how the system is behaving. A common solution to these problems is to implement a service discovery system that acts as registry and that can then be consulted by software clients, as well as the monitoring system.
Prometheus integrates seamlessly with a few mainstream service discovery systems and currently supports Consul, Nerve, and ServerSets. Integrating directly with discovery services allows Prometheus to always have an up-to-date view of what is running and where, allowing service instances to be monitored ...
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