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Awesome Prometheus

A curated list of awesome Prometheus resources, projects and tools.

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Official resources

Website

Official Prometheus project website.

GitHub repository

Prometheus' source code, issues discussion and collaboration.

Documentation

Official Prometheus documentation.

Blog

Official Prometheus blog.

Official Prometheus demo

Official Prometheus demo site managed by Cloud Alchemy Ansible roles updating daily using configuration from [Prometheus repository](https://github.com/prometheus/demo-site).

Tutorials

Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus, the ultimate guide

Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus, the ultimate guide by Mateo Burillo.

How To Install Prometheus using Docker on CentOS 7

Walkthrough on how to install Prometheus on CentOS 7.

How to Use Prometheus to Monitor Your CentOS 7 Server

Walkthrough on how to monitor a CentOS 7 server using Prometheus.

How To Add a Prometheus Dashboard to Grafana

Walkthrough on how to add a Prometheus dashboard to Grafana.

Instructions and example code for a Prometheus workshop

Instructions and example code for a Prometheus workshop by Julius Volz.

Checking if SSH is responding with Prometheus

Walkthrough on how to use the Blackbox Exporter to check if SSH is responding by Brian Brazil.

Monitor your GitHub Repos with Docker and Prometheus

Monitor your GitHub Repos with Docker and Prometheus.

Docker daemon metrics in Prometheus

Docker daemon metrics in Prometheus by Luc Juggery.

Prometheus Monitoring Tutorial (10 minutes)

Simple tutorial to create a Prometheus monitoring stack with Grafana, AlertManager, and PagerTree by Austin Miller.

Prometheus-Basics

Beginner friendly introduction to Prometheus by [yolossn](https://github.com/yolossn).

Setting up Prometheus Monitoring On a Kubernetes Cluster

Setting up Prometheus Monitoring On a Kubernetes Cluster by James Walker.

Books

Monitoring with Prometheus

Monitoring with Prometheus by James Turnbull.

Prometheus: Up & Running

Prometheus: Up & Running by Brian Brazil.

Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus by Joel Bastos & Pedro Araújo, reviewed by Brian Brazil.

Videos

PromCon Online 2020

PromCon Online - July 14-16, 2020.

PromCon 2019

PromCon Munich - November 7-8, 2019, PromCon EU 2019.

An Introduction to Systems & Service Monitoring with Prometheus

GOTO 2019: An Introduction to Systems & Service Monitoring with Prometheus - Julius Volz.

Explain it Like I'm Five - What I Learned Teaching Observability to My Kids

Monitorama PDX, 2019 - Dave Cadwallader.

Prometheus Deep Dive

KubeCon - 2017 - GitLab: Prometheus Deep Dive - Ben Kochie.

PromCon 2018

PromCon Munich - August 9-10, 2018 - talk recordings from PromCon 2018 in Munich.

Prometheus Monitoring for Java Web Applications w o Modifying Source Code

Devoxx Belgium - November 7, 2017 - Fabian Stäber.

PromCon 2017

PromCon Munich - August 17-18, 2017 - talk recordings from PromCon 2017 in Berlin.

Best Practices and Beastly Pitfalls

PromCon 2017: Best Practices and Beastly Pitfalls - Julius Volz.

Counting with Prometheus

Cloud Native Con - 2017 - Counting with Prometheus - Brian Brazil, Robust Perception.

Understanding and Extending Prometheus AlertManager

Cloud Native Con - 2017 - Understanding and Extending Prometheus AlertManager - Lee Calcote, SolarWinds.

Infrastructure and application monitoring using Prometheus

Devoxx - May 17, 2017 at Devoxx UK - Marco Pas.

Prometheus Monitoring for Java Developers

Devoxx Belgium - November 8, 2016 - Fabian Stäber.

Prometheus: Design and Philosophy - why it is the way it is

Docker - October 14, 2016 - Julius Volz.

PromCon 2016

PromCon Berlin - August 25-26, 2016 - talk recordings from PromCon 2016 in Berlin.

Prometheus: A Next Generation Monitoring System

FOSDEM 2016 - January 31, 2016 - Brian Brazil.

The Prometheus Time Series Database

PromCon 2016: The Prometheus Time Series Database - Björn Rabenstein.

PromCon 2016: So You Want to Write an Exporter

PromCon 2016 - So You Want to Write an Exporter - Brian Brazil.

Podcasts and interviews

Prometheus on FLOSS Weekly 357

Julius Volz on the FLOSS Weekly TWiT.tv show.

Prometheus and Service Monitoring

Julius Volz on the Changelog podcast.

Prometheus Monitoring with Brian Brazil

Brian Brazil on the Software Engineering Daily podcast.

Presentations

Prometheus Overview

The Promethean ideal of monitoring by Brian Brazil.

System Monitoring with Prometheus

Brian Brazil at Devops Ireland Meetup, Dublin.

OMG! Prometheus

Benjamin Staffin, Fitbit Site Operations, explains the case for Prometheus to his team.

Deploying Prometheus

Filippo Giunchedi, WikiMedia Foundation at FOSDEM 2017.

Blog posts and opinions

Prometheus: Monitoring at SoundCloud

Overview of Prometheus and first hand experience from Soundcloud.

Monitor Docker Containers with Prometheus

Using Prometheus to monitor Docker containers.

Prometheus and Kubernetes: A Perfect Match

Part 1 of 3 in the series _Prometheus and Kubernetes_.

Prometheus and Kubernetes: Deploying

Part 2 of 3 in the series _Prometheus and Kubernetes_.

Prometheus and Kubernetes: Monitoring Your Applications

Part 3 in the series _Prometheus and Kubernetes_.

Robust Perception

Multiple blog posts about Prometheus by Brian Bazil.

Initial experiences with the Prometheus monitoring system

Initial experiences with the Prometheus by Grig Gheorghiu.

Monitor your applications with Prometheus

Monitor your applications with Prometheus by Alex Ellis.

Practical Services Monitoring with Prometheus and Docker

Practical services monitoring with Prometheus and Docker by Simon KP.

Prometheus Blog Series (Part 1): Metrics and Labels

Part 1 in the series _Prometheus Blog Series_ by Pierre Vincent.

Prometheus Blog Series (Part 2): Metric types

Part 2 in the series _Prometheus Blog Series_ by Pierre Vincent.

Prometheus Blog Series (Part 3): Exposing and collecting metrics

Part 3 in the series _Prometheus Blog Series_ by Pierre Vincent.

Prometheus Blog Series (Part 4): Instrumenting code in Go and Java

Part 4 in the series _Prometheus Blog Series_ by Pierre Vincent.

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling in Kubernetes with Prometheus

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling in Kubernetes with Prometheus by Louise.

PromQL tutorial for beginners

PromQL tutorial for beginners by Aliaksandr Valialkin.

Prometheus storage: technical terms explained

Prometheus storage: technical terms for humans by Aliaksandr Valialkin.

Alerting issues with Alertmanager

Addressing alert flapping and duplicates in Alertmanager by [Ali Sattari](https://github.com/ali-sattari).

Contributing to Prometheus

Contributing to Prometheus by Atibhi Agrawal.

Simple Prometheus queries for metrics inspection

Overview of PromQL queries that help to identify high cardinality metrics by Michal Kazmierczak.

Learn Prometheus

A crash course of Prometheus by PagerTree LLC.

Deployment tools

Ansitheus

Ansible playbook to containerize, configure and deploy Prometheus ecosystem _by ntk148v_.

Cloud Alchemy Ansible roles

Ansible roles to manage Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, and common Prometheus exporters.

Ansible-prometheus

Ansible playbook for installing Prometheus monitoring system, exporters such as: node, snmp, blackbox, thus alert manager and push gateway _by Ernestas Poskus_.

Click-to-deploy Prometheus

Source for Google Click to Deploy Prometheus solutions listed on Google Cloud Marketplace _by GoogleCloudPlatform_.

Prometheus Operator

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes _by CoreOS_.

Dashboards

Grafana

Grafana is an open-source metric analytics & visualization suite _tutorial by Prometheus_.

Prometheus Monitoring with Grafana

Prometheus Monitoring with Grafana _tutorial by logz.io_.

Exporters

The lists below contain all the official Prometheus exporters that are maintained by the Prometheus GitHub organization. For a complete list of exporters including any non-official exporters see prometheus.io or exporterhub.io for a curated list of Prometheus exporters.

Databases

Consul exporter

The exporter for Consul metrics.

Memcached exporter

The Memcached exporter periodically scrapes Memcached stats.

MySQL server exporter

The MySQL server exporter periodically scrapes MySQL stats.

Node/system metrics exporter

The Node exporter periodically scrapes system stats.

HTTP

HAProxy exporter

The HAProxy exporter periodically scrapes HAProxy stats.

Other monitoring systems

AWS CloudWatch exporter

The exporter for Amazon AWS CloudWatch metrics.

Collectd exporter

The exporter for Collectd metrics.

Graphite exporter

The exporter for Graphite metrics.

InfluxDB

The exporter for InfluxDB metrics.

JMX exporter

The exporter for JMX metrics.

SNMP exporter

The exporter for SNMP metrics.

StatsD exporter

The exporter for StatsD metrics.

Miscellaneous

Blackbox

The Blackbox exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP.

Alertmanager

Monitoring mixins

Community managed bundles of alerts, recording rules, and Grafana dashboards.

Awesome Prometheus Alerting Rules

Awesome List of Prometheus alerting rules.

Karma

Alert dashboard for Prometheus Alertmanager.

Proxies

Multi-prometheus proxy

Forwards incoming requests to one of a set of multiple Prometheus instances deployed as HA duplicates of each other using a selector strategy.

Promxy

Deduplicates data from Prometheus HA pairs.

Trickster

HTTP reverse proxy/cache for HTTP applications and a dashboard query accelerator for time series databases.

exporter_proxy

A tiny, simple pure-python reverse-proxy for Prometheus exporters, with TLS support.

PromQL Guard

Provides a thin proxy on top of Prometheus, that allows PromQL queries to be inspected and re-written, so that a tenant can only see allowed data, even when using a shared Prometheus server.