Prometheus offers a robust feature set to efficiently handle monitoring tasks. It's designed for reliability and scalability, ensuring that you can trust it to monitor complex and large-scale IT environments.
Prometheus uses a sophisticated data model with time series data identified by metric name and key/value pairs, perfect for high-dimensionality monitoring.
PromQL, a flexible query language, allows for slicing and dicing of collected data to create meaningful visualizations and alerts.
Standalone storage simplifies operations—Prometheus doesn't require distributed storage, making it easy to deploy and maintain.
Prometheus's server scrapes and stores time series data from configured targets at specified intervals, providing a detailed view of system performance.
A built-in alert manager handles alerting and can route alerts based on severity and other labels to various notification channels.
Prometheus supports service discovery mechanisms to automatically monitor new hosts and services as they come up.
While it can integrate with external dashboards like Grafana, Prometheus also provides built-in support for visualizing the data it collects.