Prometheus unbound: Open source cloud monitoring

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Sedar Yegulalp.

Prometheus, an open source system for monitoring and alerting a wide spectrum of enterprise IT events, including containers, released its 1.0 revision this week. It’s also the second product in what amounts to a portfolio assembled by the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) for realizing the promise of a container-powered cloud built entirely on open source and open standards.

Originally developed at music hosting site SoundCloud, Prometheus has been a work in progress over the past four years, but during that time it’s enjoyed attention and uptake from major names. CoreOS, for instance, found Prometheus useful for improving the performance of Google’s container scheduling system Kubernetes, and Kubernetes now integrates natively with Prometheus without needing a plugin…

Prometheus can monitor a broad range of resources: containers, application frameworks like Hadoop, language runtimes and application stacks like Python or Go. Data collected from such sources is stored in a time-series database developed specifically for the project, and metrics can in turn be exported to a host of targets for further analysis…

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