Prometheus

Open-source metrics monitoring and alerting toolkit

About Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time series database built for recording how software and infrastructure behave over time. It scrapes numeric metrics from applications and services at regular intervals, stores them with labels that make slicing easy, and answers questions through its PromQL query language. Paired with its alert manager and visualization through Grafana, it has become a standard foundation for cloud-native observability, especially alongside Kubernetes. Prometheus is completely free and open source, community-driven and released under the Apache 2.0 license; teams only pay for the infrastructure they run it on or optional managed offerings from cloud providers.

Prometheus key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: monitoring, metrics, alerting, open source
Official site: prometheus.io

About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 738 tools. Alongside Prometheus, it includes Insomnia, Swagger, Auth0, Cloudflare.

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