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Prometheus CNCF Overview

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  • Started in 2012 by Matt Proud and Julius Volz at SoundCloud
  • Inspired by Google’s monitoring tools
  • Motivation
    • lack of open-source monitoring tools suitable for dynamic cloud environments
    • unsatisfying data models, querying, and efficiency in existing approaches

Origin

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Numbers from January 2016:

  • 33 repositories in our GitHub organization
  • ~4800 total GitHub stars
  • 200+ contributors
  • 2300+ pull requests (60+ open)
  • 1100+ issues (300+ open)
  • 150+ people in our IRC channel (#prometheus on FreeNode)
  • 250+ people on the mailing list who have created 300+ threads
  • 20+ Prometheus-related talks and workshops
  • 100+ articles and blog posts
  • 50+ 3rd party integrations

Community / Reach

Prometheus

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  • Dimensional data model
  • Powerful query language
  • Built for dynamic cloud environments
  • Operational simplicity
  • Highly efficient (800k samples / second and millions of series on single machine)

Key Features

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Architecture

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