Preface
Since the Prometheus project was first announced to the world in January 2015, it has rapidly become the de facto modern monitoring solution. Open source projects such as Kubernetes expose Prometheus metrics by default, cloud providers sell “managed” Prometheus services, and it even has its own yearly conference. However, in my personal journey to learn and understand Prometheus deeper, I came to a saddening realization. There are a plethora of blog posts, books, and tutorials focused on the basics of Prometheus, but few to no readily available resources that cover running Prometheus at scale.
For that information, I found myself needing to turn to conference talks or trying to extrapolate how others do it by reading through GitHub issues ...
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