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Prometheus

Basic

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for reliability and scalability. It was originally developed at SoundCloud and later open-sourced as part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Prometheus is widely used in the field of DevOps and cloud-native computing to monitor systems and applications.


This key competency area includes an understanding of the Prometheus architecture, metrics, and monitoring and alerting.

Key Competencies:

  1. Metrics and Monitoring - Understanding the basics of monitoring and metrics. Knowledge of what metrics are, how they are collected, and their importance in maintaining system health.

  2. Prometheus Architecture - Knowledge of the architecture of Prometheus, including how it collects, stores, and queries time-series data.

  3. Alerting - Ability to create alerts based on metric thresholds and conditions.