An Introduction to Prometheus Monitoring

PodCTL - Enterprise Kubernetes

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Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk Julius Volz (@juliusvolz, @PrometheusIO co-founder, promcon.io founder) about the challenges that Prometheus solves, how it does monitoring and interacts with other systems, how it works with Kubernetes, and common-use cases and patterns.
Show Notes

• Prometheus (homepage)
• Part II - Evolution of Prometheus, v2.0 (via The Cloudcast)
• PromCon and PromCon Videos
• Prometheus v1.0 on The Cloudcast (v1.0 launch)
• WeaveWorks Managed Prometheus
• Robust Perception Blog (Prometheus consulting)

Topic 1 - You created Prometheus a couple years ago at SoundCloud. What were the core challenges you were trying to solve?
Topic 2 - For people new to Prometheus, what does it do (at a basic level) in terms of monitoring containers and applications?

• What can it monitor?
• What can it trigger other systems to do?

Topic 3 - Prometheus is now part of CNCF. Is it a native Kubernetes service, or a sidecar application for containers, or a broad service that just runs on Kubernetes?
Topic 4 - What are the basic things that most people use Prometheus to monitor for? What are a few complex use-cases? (application types, application frameworks, usage-patterns, etc.)

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