How to install prometheus

Prometheus is a monitoring system that scrapes metrics and evaluates alerting rules. Development happens publicly, and releases are published by the project maintainers.

About the project

Prometheus is monitoring system that scrapes metrics and evaluates alerting rules. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

The project is run by its own contributors rather than by a company. Release cadence, supported platforms and documentation are all decided by the team behind it.

How releases reach a machine

Packaging differs from project to project. Some publish to system repositories, some to their own index, some only as source archives that a build tool expects.

What to confirm beforehand

Look at the supported versions before anything else. Projects narrow their platform range over time, and older systems can be dropped without much warning.

Afterwards

A version query afterwards is usually enough to confirm the environment picked it up. If the result is unexpected, the usual causes are a stale path entry or a version manager resolving to a different release.

What this site is

Nothing is published from this domain beyond text. Projects stay where their maintainers put them.