Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana: A Complete Guide
Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana: A Complete Guide Monitoring modern infrastructure and applications is essential for ensuring high performance and reliability. Two popular open-source tools, Prometheus and Grafana, work seamlessly together to help you collect, analyze, and visualize metrics. In this post, we will dive into what these tools are, how they work together, and provide some real-world use cases for monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. What is Prometheus? Prometheus is an open-source time-series database designed specifically for monitoring systems. It pulls metrics from various endpoints using HTTP and stores them efficiently in a format optimized for metrics data. It supports querying using a specialized language called PromQL and has a built-in alerting mechanism via AlertManager. Prometheus excels in scaling, dynamic service discovery, and reliability. ...