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Prometheus reaches 1.0

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Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

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Post by lyonlim »

jrv wrote: post #22
lyonlim wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it even right to try to compare this with New Relic? Prometheus looks very interesting and I'm trying to figure out if this is something useful to us. Thanks!

Not quite, though there is some overlap. Someone else asked me to compare Prometheus to other tools in the APM (application performance monitoring) space, and I'm going to share the summary I came up with: The way I would describe Prometheus in relation to those other tools: - Prometheus is open-source and self-hosted. - Prometheus is about dimensional numeric time series metrics only (no log-based analysis, no per-r…

Thanks! I always found NR Servers to be lacking, and frankly, I wanted a more service-oriented monitoring system that tells me how certain services are performing over time. I.e. our API performance, jobs..

Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

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Post by gophernaught »

andmarios wrote: post #11

Congrats! Prometheus + grafana are a killer duet! Easy to setup and use. Same goes for node_exporter. I only wish more JVM apps included a configuration file for the jmx_exporter and an easier to setup nginx_exporter. :) Incidentally yesterday I created a simple exporter for (linux) coretemp, hddtemp and NUT's upsc: https://github.com/andmarios/sensor_exporter

Funny coincidence, yesterday I did almost the same thing, though mine's based on lm-sensors and hddtemp:

https://github.com/ncabatoff/sensor-exporter

Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

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Post by tex0 »

jrv wrote: post #19
_lbaq wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the typical user/customer of this system ? I've found it very hard to get customers to spend time configuring a motoring system, let alone writing any scripts to gather data.

Yeah, it goes from people putting Prometheus on their Raspberry PI all the way to companies like DigitalOcean monitoring millions of machines with Prometheus ( https://promcon.io/talks/scaling_to_a_million_machines_with_... ). A lot of open-source projects (Kubernetes, Etcd, ...) are also exposing native Prometheus metrics now, making it easier to integrate with those. EDIT: also check the PromCon schedule for other…

We write most of our Stack ourself in Go and integrate the Prometheus instrumentation right away.

Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

#34

Post by _lbaq »

bbrazil wrote: post #17
_lbaq wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the typical user/customer of this system ? I've found it very hard to get customers to spend time configuring a motoring system, let alone writing any scripts to gather data.

I'm not sure there is a typical user. We've got everything from single-sysadmin small companies to Fortune 500s to companies looking to integrate it into their products. https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/03/23/interview-with-life360... and https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/05/01/interview-with-showmax... look at two of our users.

What is the business model, do you charge per input, server core or ?

Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

#35

Post by andmarios »

gophernaught wrote: post #32
andmarios wrote: post #11

Congrats! Prometheus + grafana are a killer duet! Easy to setup and use. Same goes for node_exporter. I only wish more JVM apps included a configuration file for the jmx_exporter and an easier to setup nginx_exporter. :) Incidentally yesterday I created a simple exporter for (linux) coretemp, hddtemp and NUT's upsc: https://github.com/andmarios/sensor_exporter

Funny coincidence, yesterday I did almost the same thing, though mine's based on lm-sensors and hddtemp: https://github.com/ncabatoff/sensor-exporter

Nice! I didn't knew about gosensors library.

I started with the same path, using github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus, but it exported too many application metrics (an order of magnitude more than the sensors I exported :p), so I went to a more custom approach.

Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

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Post by e12e »

jrv wrote: post #22
lyonlim wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it even right to try to compare this with New Relic? Prometheus looks very interesting and I'm trying to figure out if this is something useful to us. Thanks!

Not quite, though there is some overlap. Someone else asked me to compare Prometheus to other tools in the APM (application performance monitoring) space, and I'm going to share the summary I came up with: The way I would describe Prometheus in relation to those other tools: - Prometheus is open-source and self-hosted. - Prometheus is about dimensional numeric time series metrics only (no log-based analysis, no per-r…

> Prometheus is about dimensional numeric time series metrics only (no log-based analysis, no per-request tracing, etc.).

Any thoughts on a companion (open source) system that focuses more on logs and such?

Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

#37

Post by bbrazil »

e12e wrote: post #36
jrv wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite, though there is some overlap. Someone else asked me to compare Prometheus to other tools in the APM (application performance monitoring) space, and I'm going to share the summary I came up with: The way I would describe Prometheus in relation to those other tools: - Prometheus is open-source and self-hosted. - Prometheus is about dimensional numeric time series metrics only (no log-based analysis, no per-r…

> Prometheus is about dimensional numeric time series metrics only (no log-based analysis, no per-request tracing, etc.). Any thoughts on a companion (open source) system that focuses more on logs and such?

For logs you're looking at the ELK stack, for tracing Zipkin.

Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

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Post by jrv »

_lbaq wrote: post #34
bbrazil wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure there is a typical user. We've got everything from single-sysadmin small companies to Fortune 500s to companies looking to integrate it into their products. https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/03/23/interview-with-life360... and https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/05/01/interview-with-showmax... look at two of our users.

What is the business model, do you charge per input, server core or ?

No business model - Prometheus is 100% free and open-source and independent of any one company. We have also joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://cncf.io/) as the second member project after Kubernetes: https://cncf.io/news/announcement/2016/05/cloud-native-compu...

Read more here: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/ and here: https://prometheus.io/community/

Re: Prometheus reaches 1.0

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Post by bbrazil »

_lbaq wrote: post #34
bbrazil wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure there is a typical user. We've got everything from single-sysadmin small companies to Fortune 500s to companies looking to integrate it into their products. https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/03/23/interview-with-life360... and https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/05/01/interview-with-showmax... look at two of our users.

What is the business model, do you charge per input, server core or ?

It's open source, so there's no charge for the software.
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