PITCHME.md

Prometheus

• inspired by Google's Borgmon (cousin to Kubernetes)
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• numerical timeseries based monitoring system

+++ The name comes from Greek mythology, Prometheus was a Titan who took fire from the gods and gave it to humans.

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Components

UNIX ethos

• 'DOTADIW'
• ecosystem - work well with other tools

Prometheus

• core service
• pull metrics from assets
  • application code
  • exporter
  • from push gateway

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AlertManager

• clearing house for alerts

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Exporters

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Prometheus Exporters

Databases Hardware Messaging systems Storage APIs, Logging, Miscellaneous...

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Prometheus Exporters in use

• Node/system metrics exporter (official)
• Memcached exporter (official)
• MySQL server exporter (official)
• HAProxy exporter (official)
• Blackbox exporter (official)
• cAdvisor
• redis
• Forensiq Pixel (custom)

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Links and contact

list of exporters

• https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/

guidelines on writing exporters

• https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/writing_exporters/

Michael Bubb

• slack @mbubb