Prometheus - Monitoring system & time series database

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Time series are identified by a metric name and a set of key-value pairs.</p> </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 feature-item"> <a href="/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/"> <h2><i class="ti ti-search"></i> Powerful queries</h2> <p>PromQL allows slicing and dicing of collected time series data in order to generate ad-hoc graphs, tables, and alerts.</p> </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 feature-item"> <a href="/docs/visualization/grafana/"> <h2><i class="ti ti-chart-line"></i> Great visualization</h2> <p>Prometheus has multiple modes for visualizing data: a built-in expression browser, Grafana integration, and a console template language.</p> </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 feature-item"> <a href="/docs/prometheus/latest/storage/"> <h2><i class="ti ti-database"></i> Efficient storage</h2> <p>Prometheus stores time series in memory and on local disk in an efficient custom format. Scaling is achieved by functional sharding and federation.</p> </a> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 feature-item"> <a href="/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/"> <h2><i class="ti ti-settings"></i> Simple operation</h2> <p>Each server is independent for reliability, relying only on local storage. Written in Go, all binaries are statically linked and easy to deploy.</p> </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 feature-item"> <a href="/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/alerting_rules/"> <h2><i class="ti ti-bell"></i> Precise alerting</h2> <p>Alerts are defined based on Prometheus's flexible PromQL and maintain dimensional information. An alertmanager handles notifications and silencing.</p> </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 feature-item"> <a href="/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/"> <h2><i class="ti ti-code"></i> Many client libraries</h2> <p>Client libraries allow easy instrumentation of services. Over ten languages are supported already and custom libraries are easy to implement.</p> </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 feature-item"> <a href="/docs/instrumenting/exporters/"> <h2><i class="ti ti-cloud-upload"></i> Many integrations</h2> <p>Existing exporters allow bridging of third-party data into Prometheus. Examples: system statistics, as well as Docker, HAProxy, StatsD, and JMX metrics. </p> </a> </div> </div> <div class="row top-hr"> <div class="col-md-12"> <hr> </div> </div> <div class="row quote"> <div class="col-md-12"> <p class="quote-text"> «Even though Borgmon remains internal to Google, the idea of treating time-series data as a data source for generating alerts is now accessible to everyone through those open source tools like Prometheus [...]» </p> <p class="quote-source"> — <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do"><b>Site Reliability Engineering:</b> How Google Runs Production Systems</a> (O'Reilly Media) </p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <hr> </div> </div> <div class="row open-source"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h1><i class="ti ti-brand-github"></i> Open Source</h1> <p>Prometheus is 100% open source and community-driven. 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