Prometheus Blog

Interview with Hostinger

Hostinger, a hosting company with 30 million clients, transitioned from a Nagios/Cacti/Ganglia monitoring stack to Prometheus in 2015 to improve automation and scalability. This sw…

Subquery Support

Prometheus 2.7 introduces subqueries, allowing for range queries *within* a query – a previously unavailable feature. This eliminates the need to create recording rules for complex…

Interview with Presslabs

Presslabs, a managed WordPress hosting platform handling up to 2 billion pageviews monthly, transitioned to Prometheus for monitoring after struggling with the speed and maintenanc…

Prometheus Graduates Within CNCF

Prometheus has officially graduated within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), signifying its maturity, stability, and strong community. This graduation follows significa…

Implementing Custom Service Discovery

Prometheus now offers a way to implement custom service discovery integrations without modifying the core Prometheus code. This is achieved through a new adapter pattern, leveragin…

Interview with Datawire

Datawire, a company building tools for Kubernetes development, transitioned from AWS CloudWatch to Prometheus to gain more flexibility and engineer-level control over their monitor…

Interview with Scalefastr

Scalefastr, a new cloud platform built on open-source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus, switched to Prometheus for monitoring due to its scalability, readily available e…

Prometheus at CloudNativeCon 2017

At CloudNativeCon 2017, the Prometheus team hosted a full day of events focused on monitoring with Prometheus, particularly within Kubernetes environments. The day included hands-o…

Announcing Prometheus 2.0

Prometheus 2.0 is a major release focused on significantly improving performance and scalability, particularly for dynamic modern environments like Kubernetes. It features a new ti…

PromCon 2017 Recap

PromCon 2017 was a successful conference bringing together 220 Prometheus users and developers to share knowledge and best practices in monitoring. Speakers from companies like Clo…

Prometheus 2.0 Alpha.3 with New Rule Format

Prometheus 2.0 Alpha.3 introduces a new rule format using YAML, allowing for rule grouping with custom evaluation intervals and sequential execution to address performance and data…

Interview with L’Atelier Animation

L’Atelier Animation, a 3D animation studio, transitioned from a complex monitoring system using Nagios, Graphite, and InfluxDB to Prometheus to better monitor their large infrastru…