Positioning Open Source: Prometheus

In today’s episode of The Business of Cloud Native, I talked with Julien Pivotto and Richard Hartmann, two of the maintainers of Prometheus, about how the project started, how it’s evolved over the years (and how it’s stayed the same) as well as some novel ways Prometheus is used in the real world.

Highlights

Why both Julien and Richard got started with Prometheus

Some surprising ways that Prometheus is used to monitor things beyond the software engineering world

How Prometheus has evolved in technology and usage over the years

How Kubernetes and its relationship with Prometheus has changed the project

What assumptions ‘cloud native’ creates for potential Prometheus users

Links

Julien on Twitter

Richard on Twitter