Systems and Service Monitoring with Prometheus

Abstract
Prometheus is a modern monitoring system and time series database.
It features a multi-dimensional data model with a powerful query language and integrates many aspects of systems and service monitoring: from the instrumentation of services over the collection and storage of metrics
data, all the way to dashboarding and alerting.
Native support for various service discovery mechanisms also make it particularly suitable for dynamic cloud-based environments.

In this introduction, Prometheus co-creator Julius Volz explains the architecture of Prometheus and shows its advantages over traditional monitoring systems.

Speaker
Julius co-founded the Prometheus monitoring system (https://prometheus.io/) and led the project to success at SoundCloud and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community and is the main organizer of PromCon, the first conference around Prometheus. In a previous life, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.