Book Review: Prometheus up and running

Prometheus is a complex beast. I’ve been using it at work for the past year, and I always felt that I could barely understand what was going on. Picking up this book is a great way to start filling those gaps. Roughly, there are the following sections:

• Application Monitoring
• Infrastructure Monitoring
• PromQL
• Alerting
• Deployment

Whether you are monitoring applications or infrastructure, the core components are the same. Instrumenting the…