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- Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting system
- Prometheus scrapes metrics from instrumented jobs and stores them in a time-series database
- Prometheus provides a query language (PromQL) to query and visualize the collected metrics
- Prometheus can be integrated with Grafana for visualization
- Prometheus can be used to monitor Kubernetes clusters and applications running on Kubernetes
- Prometheus is designed to collect numeric database, not logs.
- Exporters run on the nodes and expose metrics to Prometheus
- Prometheus scrapes the metrics from the exporters