Introduction to the Prometheus Monitoring System | Key Concepts and Features

Get a quick high-level overview of the key concepts of the Prometheus monitoring system straight from the co-founder of Prometheus.

This video explains what Prometheus is, what the system architecture looks like, and what the main features and concepts are that make Prometheus-based monitoring so powerful: the dimensional data model, the text-based metrics transfer format, the PromQL query language, integrated alerting, and service discovery support.

Check my Prometheus training courses if you want to learn more:

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:16 What is Prometheus?
00:47 System Architecture
02:44 Core Features Overview
02:56 Prometheus Data Model
05:11 Metrics Transfer Format
06:24 Query Language (PromQL)
08:30 Integrated Alerting
09:10 Service Discovery Support
10:00 Outro & PromLabs Prometheus Trainings

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[renobodyrenobody]

Thanks a lot. I use Prometheus as the main part of our observability stack but never spend enough time to clearly understand how it works. Thanks to your videos it will be easier to learn with informations from the best source!

[ommandal]

Just wow! No wonder this level of lucidity is missing from other prometheus/grafana videos. They are not the creators of Prometheus!

[KDTechverse]

A good teacher can make you fall in love with anything. Thank you for making this video ❤

[UmutAkkaya-sq]

Julius. It was a great video thank you.

[JordanMatyka]

That Chrome extension will come in handy. Thanks!

[kings]

Wow halfway and I can already see it's just goldenn. 🙏 and ❤ from Chennai 🇮🇳

[munet]

Hi Julius.
This video is pure magic! Thanks a ton for sharing. I have a question. Which program are you using to edit the video?

[ongxa]

Thanks a lot. It's really helpful.

[Jam-htky]

awesome video, your channel is one of the best for getting on the Prometheus & Grafana, really helped me to get the first hands-on experience and stimulated me to get my hands dirty!

[yogeshsy]

Very informative videos! Kudos! I'm looking for easy to understand and implement tutorials/resources about "prometheus at scale for k8s clusters in production" either using thanos/cortex or prometheus federation. It would be great if you can make few videos on this topic. Because I think if someone can make this topic easy to understand, it has to be none other than you.

[bdl]

Thanks for this amazing job!
I have a question though. How technically Prometheus server is able to scrape the status code of server like nginx ? From my knowledge it is not something that is exposed by nginx through a client library.

[NanaOseiYeboah]

Julius. Your videos are great. But can you please slow down just a bit!! 🙏🏾

[bdl]

Thanks for this amazing job.
I have a question though. When you add the sum by(path) does that mean that the expression will return the sum of all the values of the time series ? I don't quite get this part.

[HaziHaznidaUsolludin]

Hi Sir, I have a question. Does this tools suitable for Maintenance Planning use? If yes, would you please explain a bit on how this Prometheus helping with the planning for maintenance work? Many thanks.

[robl]

I’m struggling to figure out how to get cpu utilization and memory for Kubernetes jobs. Jobs don’t run indefinitely like a web application does. Additionally, the applications don’t support incoming HTTP requests. What is a good way to capture these metrics?

[sandyd.k.]

Kesini karena ingin tahu apa itu Prometheus