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Prometheus

Prometheus: Cloud-native metrics

What it’s for: Time-series metrics including CPU, memory, request rates, error counts, and latency.

Good to know

  • Query language: PromQL
  • Connects to any Prometheus-compatible backend, including Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, and Thanos
  • Native Grafana support, so there’s nothing extra to install

Best for

  • Kubernetes environments
  • Microservices architectures
  • Cloud-native applications

Set it up

Open this learning path in your Grafana Cloud stack for a fully interactive experience, or read through it to understand the process first.

Learning path

Connect to a Prometheus data source

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides the best practice for configuring a Prometheus data source plugin.

14 min
Beginner
Docs & blog posts

Open in Grafana Cloud

Complete this learning path directly in your Grafana Cloud stack with an interactive learning experience.

Open in Grafana Cloud
View on website

Script

Let’s start with Prometheus, a leading choice for cloud-native metrics. If you’re running Kubernetes, microservices, or anything modern, chances are Prometheus is involved somewhere.

The Prometheus data source connects Grafana to your Prometheus-compatible metrics, and you query them with PromQL.

Grafana provides first-class support for Prometheus with native integration, so there’s nothing extra to install. If you’re doing cloud-native observability, Prometheus is probably where you start.

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