Because Prometheus is an open-source software solution, it’s easier to learn about it and how to use it before you begin working with it and it’s well-known in the metric monitoring sphere.

See how two network performance monitoring solutions, Datadog and Prometheus, can head off these costly problems. Image: monstArrr_, Getty Images/iStockphoto.

Prometheus 2.0 container monitoring system arrives with a more efficient time-series data storage format, better handling of stale event data, and snapshot-based database backups.

Matt Bostock’s SRECON 2017 Europe talk covers how Prometheus, a metric-based monitoring tool, is used to monitor CDN, DNS and DDoS mitigation provider CloudFlare’s globally distributed ...

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus smooths the way to multi-cluster monitoring across Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc-hosted Kubernetes, and on-prem Kubernetes deployments.

Reinartz said Prometheus 2.0 testing has shown CPU usage reduced by up to 40 percent and disk space usage reduced by up to 50 percent compared with the previous 1.8 release.

Developers are rapidly adopting open source Prometheus to monitor the performance of their applications. With more than 13,500 code commits and 6,300 contributors, Prometheus adoption is accelerating.