For businesses utilising public clouds, choosing an open source platform offers considerable advantages. Open source solutions can help reduce costs, provide access to the most leading-edge enterprise-grade features, and eliminate risks such as vendor lock-in, lack of support, or long-term security maintenance.
If you know anything about upholding the three pillars of observability for your business then you will know that centrally analysing and managing logs, metrics and traces is vital for improving how you observe the status of your business’s key infrastructure components.
Prometheus seeks to be a new generation within open source monitoring tools. A different approach with no legacies from the past. For years, many monitoring tools have been linked to Nagios for its architecture and philosophy or directly for being a complete fork (CheckMk, Centreon, OpsView, Icinga, Naemon, Shinken, Vigilo NMS, NetXMS, OP5 and others). Prometheus software, however, is true to the “Open” spirit: if you want to use it, you will have to put together several different parts.
