Below you'll find all the An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics articles on the site.
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics. Later posts include What are Prometheus Exporters?, and What are OpenTelemetry Metrics and Exporters. One surprising thing about the software instrumentation world, a world that helps us see what our systems are doing, is how opaque the instrumentation [...]
astormThis entry is part 2 of 3 in the series An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics. Earlier posts include What is Prometheus?. Later posts include What are OpenTelemetry Metrics and Exporters. In our first article, we covered four core Prometheus concepts and used those four concepts to instrument a simple service written in NodeJS. One [...]
astormThis entry is part 3 of 3 in the series An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics. Earlier posts include What is Prometheus?, and What are Prometheus Exporters?. This is the most recent post in the series. Last time we ended by musing that Prometheus, while an open source project, still creates a case of vendor lock-in for its users. [...]
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