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What Is Prometheus

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As a DevOps engineer, knowing your tools is key, given how many are out there, understanding which ones get the job done is important.

In this case, Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting tool designed for reliability and scalability. It is widely used to monitor applications and infrastructure by collecting metrics, storing them in a time-series database, and providing powerful querying capabilities.