Prometheus
A metrics monitoring system with a time-series database, PromQL, and service discovery.
Overview
Prometheus collects metrics by scraping instrumented endpoints, stores them as time series, and evaluates PromQL queries and alerting rules. Service discovery keeps targets current in dynamic environments.
Where it fits
- Monitoring infrastructure and applications
- Alerting on service-level symptoms
- Capacity and trend analysis with PromQL
Key capabilities
- Pull-based metric collection
- PromQL query language
- Alerting and recording rules
- Service discovery integrations
Repository metadata
- Stars (snapshot)
- 66,967
- Main language
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Topics
- alerting, graphing, hacktoberfest, metrics, monitoring, prometheus, time-series
- Category
- Infrastructure
- Last push
- 2026-11-05T10:57:05Z
Repository description from GitHub metadata: The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
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