Prometheus Blog

When (not) to use varbit chunks

Prometheus recently added a new chunk encoding called “varbit” which significantly improves compression (up to 3x better) allowing for more data storage and potentially faster inge…

Interview with ShowMax

ShowMax, a video-on-demand service operating in 65 countries, struggled with the scalability and stability of their previous monitoring systems (Graphite and OpenTSDB). They transi…

Interview with Life360

Life360, a family connection app handling massive traffic (700k requests/minute), moved to Prometheus from a fragmented monitoring system (Copperegg, Graphite, Sensu, Cloudwatch) d…

Custom Alertmanager Templates

This article details how to customize Slack notifications sent by Alertmanager, the alert handling component of Prometheus. It demonstrates adding links to runbook documentation wi…

One Year of Open Prometheus Development

One year after its public announcement, the open-source monitoring system Prometheus has experienced significant growth and adoption thanks to a boost from Hacker News and a thrivi…

Custom service discovery with etcd

This article details how to implement custom service discovery in Prometheus using etcd, a distributed key-value store. It describes building a utility program that watches for cha…

Monitoring DreamHack - the World's Largest Digital Festival

DreamHack, the world's largest digital festival, requires building a massive network from scratch in just five days to support over 10,000 gamers. The DreamHack Network team (dhtec…

Practical Anomaly Detection

This article argues that perfectly detecting anomalies in complex systems is impossible, but practical anomaly detection *is* achievable through custom rules built with tools like …

Advanced Service Discovery in Prometheus 0.14.0

Prometheus v0.14.0 introduces enhanced service discovery capabilities, adding native support for Consul and a file-based interface for custom discovery mechanisms alongside existin…

Prometheus Monitoring Spreads through the Internet

This article highlights the growing adoption of Prometheus, a monitoring system, since the release of version 0.10.0. It compiles a list of numerous online resources – blog posts, …