4. INTRODUCTION
• Ashish Jain
• Architect @ Wipro Ltd
• Apache Committer
• OpenStack Contributor to Glance & Solum in the past
• Galaxia Architect & Developer
• Interest Areas – Everything on Cloud & Containers
5. A BRIEF HISTORY
• Next Generation Monitoring Solution
Started by
Ex-Googlers
Julius Volz
and Matt T
Proud
2012
Went into
production
in
SoundCloud
2013
Early
adopters in
Docker &
Boxever
2014
Officially
announced
Jan 2015
Becomes
2nd project
of CNCF
May 2016
Prometheus
1.0 is
released
Jul 2016
6. FEATURES
Multidimensional Data Model
Flexible Query Language
No reliance on distributed storage,
decentralization
Metrics Scrapper works on Pull, although push is
also supported
Decentralization
Machines vs Services
Targets can be discovered via SD or static
configuration
Dashboarding via Promdash & Graffana