August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 48m
English
Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting toolkit originally developed in 2012 at SoundCloud. It was inspired by Borgmon at Google. In contrast to the push model employed by systems such as statsd, Prometheus uses a pull model for collecting metrics. Instead of each service being responsible for pushing metrics to a statsd server, Prometheus is responsible for scraping an endpoint exposed by services that have metrics. This inversion of responsibilities provides some benefits when operating metrics at scale. Targets in Prometheus can be configured manually or via service discovery.
In contrast to the hierarchical format that systems such as Graphite use to store metrics data, Prometheus employs ...
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