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Type: Observability / Monitoring Stack
Typical Use Case: Metrics scraping, dashboards, alerting for services and infrastructure
Famous Usage: Kubernetes clusters, microservices SRE, cloud-native platforms

📈 Prometheus Stack

Prometheus · Grafana · Alertmanager

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Prometheus

Metrics Scraping & TSDB
  • Scrapes exporters (node, app, kube-state) via pull model
  • Time-series DB with PromQL, recording rules
  • Service discovery (Kubernetes, cloud, static targets)
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Alertmanager

Alert Routing & Silence
  • Receives alerts from Prometheus rules
  • Grouping, inhibition, silence windows
  • Routes to email, Slack, PagerDuty, webhooks
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Grafana

Dashboards & Visualization
  • Dashboards and alerts using Prometheus as datasource
  • Variables, templating, drilldowns for ops/SRE
  • Teams, folders, RBAC for collaboration
Flow: Prometheus scrapes metrics → Alertmanager handles alerts → Grafana queries Prometheus for dashboards and alerting.