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Sneak Peak of Prometheus 2.0

Prometheus 2.0 is a major upcoming release focused on overhauling the storage layer to address performance bottlenecks caused by increasingly dynamic environments like Kubernetes. …

Interview with Europace

Europace, a large German financial marketplace, transitioned from Nagios/Icinga to Prometheus to address scalability issues and empower their DevOps teams with more ownership of mo…

Interview with Weaveworks

Weaveworks, a microservices operationalization service, chose Prometheus for monitoring due to their team's prior experience with similar systems and its natural fit with their Kub…

Interview with Canonical

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is transitioning from a monitoring stack of Nagios, Graphite, and in-house tools to Prometheus due to its simplicity, power, and ability to co…

Interview with JustWatch

JustWatch is a streaming search engine with a rapidly growing international presence, operating a microservices architecture with a small engineering team. They transitioned to Pro…

Interview with Compose

Compose, a database-as-a-service provider, transitioned from Graphite and InfluxDB to Prometheus due to issues with scalability, data corruption, and unfulfilled feature promises. …

Interview with DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean transitioned from Graphite/OpenTSDB to Prometheus due to difficulties managing OpenTSDB’s scalability and frustrations with its query language and visualization tools.…

Interview with ShuttleCloud

ShuttleCloud, a company that facilitates email and contact data importing for providers like Google and Comcast, initially relied on a fragmented monitoring system using scripts, P…

PromCon 2016 - It's a wrap!

PromCon 2016, the first Prometheus user conference, brought together 80 developers and users in Berlin to share knowledge and build connections within the Prometheus community. Att…

Pull doesn't scale - or does it?

This article argues against the common claim that Prometheus's pull-based metric collection doesn't scale. It explains that Prometheus differs significantly from systems like Nagio…

Prometheus reaches 1.0

Prometheus, a popular monitoring solution, has officially reached version 1.0, signifying a stable API and user interface after a year of public development and joining the Cloud N…

Prometheus to Join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Prometheus, a popular open-source monitoring system, is joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to establish a sustainable, independent governance model. This move wil…