Prometheus Authors / CNCF
Powering cloud-native monitoring and alerting with a multi-dimensional data model, a flexible query language, and an efficient time-series database.
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Prometheus
Open Source Monitoring Toolkit
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Latest News
Prometheus announces full stabilization of Native Histograms for high-resolution metrics.
Integration with OpenTelemetry reaches new milestone with native OTLP ingestion support.
Prometheus 3.0 enters beta with significant performance improvements and UI updates.
Products & Services
Core time-series database and monitoring server that pulls metrics via HTTP.
Handles alerts from Prometheus server, managing silencing, inhibition, and routing to receivers like email, PagerDuty, etc.
Support for short-lived service jobs to push metrics into Prometheus.
A variety of libraries and servers which help in exporting existing metrics from third-party systems as Prometheus metrics (e.g., Node Exporter, MySQL Exporter).
Market Position
Leader in open-source cloud-native monitoring; considered the standard for Kubernetes-native observability.
Leadership
Founders
Julius Volz
Previously a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google; co-founded Prometheus at SoundCloud; later founded PromLabs.
Matt Proud
Previously a software engineer at Google; co-founded Prometheus at SoundCloud.
Executive Team
Richard Hartmann
Steering Committee Member / Community Lead
Director of Community at Grafana Labs; long-time Prometheus maintainer and community advocate.
Björn Rabenstein
Steering Committee Member
Engineer at Grafana Labs; former Production Engineer at SoundCloud; core maintainer since the project's inception.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Prometheus was built at SoundCloud starting in 2012 to monitor their growing microservices architecture, drawing inspiration from Google's internal Borgmon monitoring system.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open Source (Apache 2.0). The project is community-driven and part of the non-profit CNCF.
Pricing Tiers
Available under Apache License 2.0
Target Markets
- Cloud Native Engineering
- DevOps
- SRE Teams
- FinTech
- Tech Startups
- Kubernetes and Container Monitoring
- Microservices Observability
- Real-time Alerting
- SoundCloud
- DigitalOcean
- Docker
- Red Hat