Prometheus
Prometheus (https://prometheus.io) is one of the top new generation open source monitoring systems. This system possesses one of the best time series databases among other features. This tool supports multiple cloud backends and supports a dimensional data model.
At the core, the Prometheus system scrapes HTTP endpoints and can get metrics. This then stores it in its own time series database. The tool by itself doesn't provide a dashboard, so we will also be using Grafana in order to provide us with the required dashboard. It also uses a separate alert manager in order to generate events in case the thresholds are breached. Together, this system is called Grafana-Alertmanager-Prometheus (GAP), and is being used extensively in a ...
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