Monitor Your Microservice via Prometheus
Hey, this blog is about how you can monitor your existing microservice via monitoring tools like Prometheus, It is an open-source tool that works on the concept of metrics.
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring tool, which is conceptually based on Google's internal Borgmon monitoring system. Unlike traditional tools like Nagios, Prometheus implements a white-box monitoring approach: Applications actively provide metrics, these metrics are stored in a time-series database, and the time-series data is used as a source for generating alerts.
Prometheus comes with a powerful query language allowing for statistical evaluation of metrics. Many modern infrastructure components have Prometheus metrics built-in, like Docker's cAdvisor, Kubernetes, or Konsul. Moreover, there are libraries for instrumenting proprietary applications in a lot of programming languages.
I also added a youtube video that gives an introduction to monitoring with Prometheus and shows how Java applications can expose metrics for Prometheus monitoring environments. I will show how to instrument applications directly in code and monitor your existing application using Prometheus from scratch, I have used a basic Springboot-based application for the demo.
This is a very basic video where I am explaining pushing metrics and using them, if you already have DevOps experience or any experience related to monitoring then this would be very basic for you, here I am targeting an audience who are completely new to monitoring.
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