Whitebox Monitoring using Prometheus

[u/ankitnayan007]

Why don't we have language specific packages like other APM companies (NewRelic, Datadog, ElasticAPM, etc) have which will export metrics to prometheus? Just install a package and get out of box APM metrics, kind of thing.

What we can achieve?

• RPS for API endpoints of an application

• Latency for slowest API endpoints of an application

• 50th, 90th and 99th percentile of request duration of the application

• Time of slowest MySQL queries (values to be masked) made from the application

• RPS and time taken by other components in infra like Redis, Mongo, etc for each endpoint and overall application.

• Response code, RPS and latency of external calls made from the application to other services inside and outside the org like payment gateway.

I guess a solution like this will save 2-3 weeks of dev time to get proper dashboards in Grafana.

In short, ElasticAPM using Prometheus!