Awesome Prometheus

A curated list of awesome Prometheus resources, projects and tools.

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Contents

• Official resources
• Tutorials
• Books
• Videos
• Podcasts and interviews
• Presentations
• Blog posts and opinions
• Dashboards
• Exporters
• Uncategorized

Official resources

• Website - Official Prometheus project website.
• GitHub repository - Prometheus' source code, issues discussion and collaboration.
• Documentation - Official Prometheus documentation.
• Blog - Official Prometheus blog.

Tutorials

• How To Install Prometheus using Docker on CentOS 7 - Walkthough on how to install Prometheus on CentOS 7.
• How to Use Prometheus to Monitor Your CentOS 7 Server - Walkthough on how to monitor a CentOS 7 server using Prometheus.
• How To Install Prometheus using Docker on Ubuntu 14.04 - Walkthough on how to install Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04.
• How To Use Prometheus to Monitor Your Ubuntu 14.04 Server - Walkthough on how to monitor a Ubuntu 14.04 server using Prometheus.
• How To Query Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04 Part 1 - Part 1 of 2 in the series How To Query Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04.
• How To Query Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04 Part 2 - Part 2 in the series How To Query Prometheus on Ubuntu 14.04.
• How To Add a Prometheus Dashboard to Grafana - Walkthrough on how to add a Prometheus dashboard to Grafana.
• Instructions and example code for a Prometheus workshop - Instructions and example code for a Prometheus workshop by Julius Volz.
• Checking if SSH is responding with Prometheus - Walkthrough on how to use the Blackbox Exporter to check if SSH is responding by Brian Brazil.
• Monitor your GitHub Repos with Docker and Prometheus - Monitor your GitHub Repos with Docker and Prometheus.
• Docker daemon metrics in Prometheus - Docker daemon metrics in Prometheus by Luc Juggery.
• Prometheus Monitoring Tutorial (10 minutes) - Simple tutorial to create a Prometheus monitoring stack with Grafana, AlertManager, and PagerTree by Austin Miller.

Books

• Monitoring with Prometheus - by James Turnbull.
• Prometheus: Up & Running - by Brian Brazil.

Videos

• PromCon 2016 - PromCon Berlin - August 25-26, 2016 - talk recordings from PromCon 2016 in Berlin.
• Prometheus Monitoring for Java Developers - Devoxx Belgium - November 8, 2016 - Fabian Stäber.
• Prometheus: A Next Generation Monitoring System - FOSDEM 2016 - January 31, 2016 - Brian Brazil.
• PromCon 2016: So You Want to Write an Exporter - PromCon 2016 - So You Want to Write an Exporter - Brian Brazil
• PromCon 2017 - PromCon Munich - August 17-18, 2017 at Google Munich - talk recordings.
• Infrastructure and application monitoring using Prometheus - Devoxx - May 17, 2017 at Devoxx UK - Marco Pas.
• Prometheus Monitoring for Java Web Applications w o Modifying Source Code - Devoxx Belgium - November 7, 2017 - Fabian Stäber.
• Prometheus: Design and Philosophy - why it is the way it is - Docker - October 14, 2016 - Julius Volz.

Podcasts and interviews

• Prometheus on FLOSS Weekly 357 - Julius Volz on the FLOSS Weekly TWiT.tv show.
• Prometheus and Service Monitoring - Julius Volz on the Changelog podcast.
• Prometheus Monitoring with Brian Brazil - Brian Brazil on the Software Engineering Daily podcast.

Presentations

• Prometheus Overview - The Promethean ideal of monitoring by Brian Brazil.
• System Monitoring with Prometheus - Brian Brazil at Devops Ireland Meetup, Dublin.
• OMG! Prometheus - Benjamin Staffin, Fitbit Site Operations, explains the case for Prometheus to his team.
• Deploying Prometheus - Filippo Giunchedi, WikiMedia Foundation at FOSDEM 2017.

Blog posts and opinions

• Prometheus: Monitoring at SoundCloud - Overview of Prometheus and first hand experience from Soundcloud.
• Monitor Docker Containers with Prometheus - Using Prometheus to monitor Docker containers.
• Prometheus and Kubernetes: A Perfect Match - Part 1 of 3 in the series Prometheus and Kubernetes.
• Prometheus and Kubernetes: Deploying - Part 2 of 3 in the series Prometheus and Kubernetes.
• Prometheus and Kubernetes: Monitoring Your Applications - Part 3 in the series Prometheus and Kubernetes.
• Robust Perception - Multiple blogposts about Prometheus by Brian Bazil.
• Initial experiences with the Prometheus monitoring system - Initial experiences with the Prometheus by Grig Gheorghiu.
• Monitor your applications with Prometheus - Monitor your applications with Prometheus by Alex Ellis.
• Practical Services Monitoring with Prometheus and Docker - Practical services monitoring with Prometheus and Docker by Simon KP.
• Prometheus Blog Series (Part 1): Metrics and Labels - Part 1 in the series Prometheus Blog Series by Pierre Vincent.
• Prometheus Blog Series (Part 2): Metric types - Part 2 in the series Prometheus Blog Series by Pierre Vincent.
• Prometheus Blog Series (Part 3): Exposing and collecting metrics - Part 3 in the series Prometheus Blog Series by Pierre Vincent.
• Prometheus Blog Series (Part 4): Instrumenting code in Go and Java - Part 4 in the series Prometheus Blog Series by Pierre Vincent.

Dashboards

• Grafana - Grafana is an open source metric analytics & visualization suite tutorial by Prometheus.
• Prometheus Monitoring with Grafana - Prometheus Monitoring with Grafana tutorial by logz.io.

Exporters

• Blackbox exporter - The Blackbox exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP (official exporter).
• HAProxy exporter - The HAProxy exporter periodically scrapes HAProxy stats (official exporter).
• Memcached exporter - The Memcached exporter periodically scrapes Memcached stats (official exporter).
• MySQL Server exporter - The MySQL server exporter periodically scrapes MySQL stats (official exporter).
• Node exporter - The Node exporter periodically scrapes system stats (official exporter).
• Redis exporter - The Redis exporter periodically scrapes Redis server stats.
• Elasticsearch Exporter - The ElasticSearch exporter periodically scrapes ElasticSearch server stats.

Proxies

• Multi-prometheus proxy - forwards incoming requests to one of a set of multiple prometheus instances deployed as HA duplicates of each other using a selector strategy.

Uncategorized

• Prometheus Monitoring subreddit - Subreddit collecting all Prometheus-related resources on the internet.
• PromCon - The Prometheus conference.
• Prometheus demo site - Prometheus site managed with ansible running every day using playbook from cloudalchemy repository.

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