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Prometheus collecting metrics from cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, and servers, then storing, querying.

What Is Prometheus? Open-Source Monitoring and Alerting Explained

Prometheus is a CNCF open-source monitoring system that collects time-series metrics via HTTP pull, stores in a custom TSDB, and alerts via PromQL rules. Covers architecture, exporters, Grafana integration, and comparison with Zabbix and Datadog.

Jul 20, 20267 min readintermediateEmanuel De Almeida