Let’s first understand what Prometheus is:
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring solution built primarily for gathering and analyzing time-series data, with specific built-in tools making it appropriate for monitoring Kubernetes and other containerized environments. It is a cross-platform monitoring tool that lets you collect metrics from servers, containers, and applications and work with them all in the same way.
Now let’s understand Prometheus Architecture to know how it works:
Prometheus is a multi-component system. While the following integrates into a Prometheus deployment, there is flexibility in which of these pieces are actually implemented.
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