Prometheus
The monitoring system and time-series database of the cloud native world: it scrapes metrics and answers PromQL. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Created by
- Matt T. Proud, Julius Volz
- First release
- 2015
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://prometheus.io
- Written in
- Go
- Data model
- Time-series
- Storage layout
- Column-oriented
- Workload
- Analytics (OLAP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- PromQL
- ACID transactions
- No
- Schema
- Flexible
- Deployment
- Server
- Scaling
- Single node
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Appends millions of samples a second); Read: fast (Fast PromQL over recent data); Update: slow (Samples are never changed); Delete: slow (By retention, or tombstones through the admin API)