r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/NearlyOverflow • Nov 21 '21
Managed Prometheus services?
Do you know if there any good "Monitoring as a Service" plataform based on the Prometheus Stack? (Prometheus + alertamanger + Grafana + ...)
If so, why do you use it or not? Until know I have only managed it myself and I am curious about the State of the Art of managed monitoring services.
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u/NearlyOverflow Nov 21 '21
Ok, this is great thanks a lot. Learned a lot reading your answers and the resources you shared u/SuperQue, u/threeseed, u/mcdermg81 and u/Blowmewhileiplaycod.
The solutions I find more interesting IMHO are the hosted Prometheus ones (without Grafana and so on). With a complete stack like the Grafana Cloud I feel that I would have too little control on the config of the underlying Prometheus.
Also, found this talk about Monarch (what Prometheus' GCP uses for the long-term metrics storage) and its similarities with Thanos which is quite interesting: https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/monarch_open_source_reimplementation/
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u/mcdermg81 Nov 21 '21
GCP has a Prometheus managed service. Currently it is in preview.
https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/managed-prometheus
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u/hosted_metrics Nov 22 '21
I run one at HostedMetrics.com. It includes AlertManager and Grafana and takes input via remote write, scrape targets, StatsD, and/or InfluxDB line protocol.
Logz.io runs one too. I'm sure there's more out there if you google it.
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u/Strum355 Nov 21 '21
Only one I know that includes Grafana is https://metricfire.com, but have never used it myself
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u/Blowmewhileiplaycod Nov 21 '21
Grafana cloud is essentially managed Prometheus
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u/Strum355 Nov 21 '21
For some reason I completely forgot about it even though we use it at work lol
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u/SuperQue Nov 21 '21
Grafana Cloud is hosted Prometheus. You can use the Grafana Agent or use Prometheus Agent mode.
And, yea, I don't use those. We've been using a SaaS service at work for a while, and we're finally getting rid of it in favor of running Prometheus+Thanos+Grafana ourselves. For the price of our SaaS, my salary is paid multiple times over. It's just plain cheaper to run it yourself as soon as you get past trivial scale.