prometheus/prometheus
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 14
- age_days: 5030
- days_rel: 15
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 40
Adoption not part of the score
65839 stars · 10800 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Prometheus is an open-source systems and service monitoring toolkit and time series database, originally built at SoundCloud and now a CNCF graduated project. It collects metrics from configured targets via HTTP pull, stores them in a multi-dimensional data model, evaluates PromQL queries, and triggers alerts through Alertmanager.
Use cases
- monitor my kubernetes cluster metrics
- set up alerting when error rates spike
- query and graph time series metrics with PromQL
- scrape metrics from my applications and services
- collect system and database metrics via exporters
- build dashboards from infrastructure metrics
When to choose
- you need pull-based metrics collection with a powerful dimensional query language
- you run cloud-native or Kubernetes workloads and want service discovery
- you want a self-contained monitoring server without distributed storage dependencies
- you need mature alerting rules integrated with Alertmanager
When to avoid
- you need long-term durable storage across clusters without external remote storage
- you require per-request tracing or log aggregation rather than numeric metrics
- you want push-based event collection without a pushgateway intermediary
- you need exact accounting or billing-grade metrics
Facets
service · maturity stable
monitoring alerting database search-engine data-visualization monitoring time-series cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code windows go self-hosted cross-platform promql time-series-database metrics-collection pull-model service-discovery cncf exporters federation devops containers linux macos docker kubernetes
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0155ef8c75dd
- homepage: https://prometheus.io/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 90ad2d078025
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · c696bb6218d5
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 082691cfcbb1
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/data_model/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 83633208ef16
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 89b06de5cf54
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/overview/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9467da92495b
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · e4574880308e
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · f9ef0f663e3b
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 3bc93769567c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| prometheus/prometheus | main | 99 |
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