I’ve been looking for an open source self-hosted monitoring solution that can provide metrics storage, visualization and alerting for physical servers, virtual machines, containers and services that are running inside containers. After trying out Elastic Beats, Graphite and Prometheus I’ve settled-on Prometheus. The main reason for choosing Prometheus was the support for multi-dimensional metrics and the query language that’s easy to grasp. The fact that you can use the same language for graphing and alerting makes the monitoring task a whole lot easier. Prometheus handles blackbox probing as well as whitebox metrics meaning you can probe your infrastructure and also monitor the internal state of your applications.
Read more at Stefan Prodan’s Blog
