Cloud-Native Microservices With Kubernetes - 2nd Edition

Key Takeaways

Prometheus is to metrics what Linux is to operating systems. It's everywhere in the Cloud Native ecosystem; it's becoming a standard. These are the most important points to remember about Prometheus:

• Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for reliability and scalability.
• Uses a multi-dimensional data model with time-series data identified by metric names and key-value pairs.