Prometheus

Scaling Prometheus with Thanos

This blog is based on my work at CloudRaft!

Observability is a crucial pillar of any application, and monitoring is an essential component of it. Having a well-suited, robust monitoring system is crucial. It can help you detect issues in your application and provide insights once it is deployed. It aids in performance, resource management, and observability. Most importantly, it can help you save costs by identifying issues in your infrastructure. One of the most popular tools in monitoring is Prometheus.

Monitoring with Prometheus

This blog is based on my work at CloudRaft!

Monitoring is the lifeline that ensures the seamless operation of systems, applications, and networks. Whether managing a small startup or a large enterprise, the ability to monitor infrastructure in real time is crucial for maintaining performance, ensuring reliability, and quickly resolving issues before they escalate. The average cost of downtime in IT industry as per Pingdom is between $5600 to $9600 per minute and as more and more digitization happens, it is going to increase further.