1. Coming to the age of the microservices the older monitoring systems are not much dependable especially when you have a dynamic environment where containers keep coming up and down.
2. Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting system built at soundcloud in 2012 and now managed by Cloud native computing foundation in 2016 as the second hosted project after Kubernetes.
3. Prometheus main featues include a multi-dimensional data model with time series data identified by metric name and key/value pairs which helps in understand overall performance of the sytem graphically.
4. Prometheus support PromoQL, a flexible query language to leverage this dimensionality.
5. It's not reliant on distributed storage like zookeeper rather single server nodes are autonomous.
6. Time series collection happens via pull model over http and pushing is supported via an intermediary gateway.
7. Targets for the monitoring are discovered via service discovery or static configuration which allows you to dynamically configure monitoring in a dynamic environment.
8. The main components of the prometheus is prometheus server which scrapes and stores time series data, client libraries for instrumenting application code, push gateway for supporting short-lived jobs, exporters like HAProxy, StatsD, Graphite etc, an alertmanager to handle alerts and various support tools.
9. Most of the prometheus components are written in Go programming language, making them easy to build and deploy as static libraries.
10. Prometheus works well with the purely numberic timer series metric. It fits both the machine centric monitoring as well as monitoring of highly dynamic service-oriented architectures. From microservices point of view it supports multi-dimensional data collection and querying is a particular strength.
In our future posts we are going to compare the prometheus with other monitoring tools.
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