Summary
The system that we covered in this chapter needs some more changes to make it production ready, such as securing the Prometheus with user credentials. However, this system is scalable and supports monitoring the systems used in the cloud such as Ceph, HAProxy, OpenStack, and various time series databases.
Prometheus's data model and query language is powerful and allows us to perform a variety of things in a much faster manner. Do remember that in the previous sections (dealing with Prometheus and Grafana), we have not taken into account the ability to generate alerts. Alertmanager (https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/alertmanager/) can be used for these purposes and it supports multiple kinds of notifications and silencing based ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access