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Prometheus is a monitoring system that collects metrics from targets at intervals, stores and queries them as time series, evaluates rules, and triggers alerts. It combines a multidimensional data model, PromQL, service discovery, and federation.
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Collect labeled series and evaluate system state with PromQL and rules
Time series are identified by metric names and key-value labels and collected through an HTTP pull model. PromQL queries the data, while rule expressions can trigger alerts. Static configuration, service discovery, graphing, dashboards, and hierarchical or horizontal federation are also supported.
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For operating service and infrastructure metrics in autonomous units
It fits teams standardizing collection, querying, and alert evaluation across application and infrastructure metrics. Prometheus can start from a binary or container, and custom builds can include only the required service-discovery integrations.
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Understand pull collection, push gateways, and single-server boundaries
Prometheus is pull-oriented, with batch-job pushes supported through an intermediary gateway. The README describes autonomous server nodes without a dependency on distributed storage. Plan sizing, retention, availability, federation, and remote-write topology separately for each production deployment.
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Official sources
- [1]Prometheus README(2026-09-13)
Supplemental curator note
Selected for keeping its top-level brand surface unusually focused while turning CNCF governance into a durable trust signal complementary to Grafana.
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- monitoring
- metrics
- alerting
- graphing
- time-series
- prometheus
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- Primary language
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Repository last updated
- Sep 11, 2026
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