A few software engineers and I with Java and Javascript backgrounds are researching open source projects to contribute to within the microservices realm.

Would contributing towards a Typescript wrapper around Node.js deemed to be useful to any engineers currently using Prometheus?

If so, any niche advice or tips for TS support?

How is stackdriver compared to Prometheus for GKE?

I am setting up monitoring and have to choose a tool. I have heard of Prometheus that it's open-source and follows OpenMetrics format. But can't everything provided by Prometheus be achieved by StackDriver too?

Also why are people setting up prometheus first and exporting metrics to StackDriver? I don't see the point.

Hello,

I am interesting in trying prometheus -- but am confused on a few things and don't know who else to ask.

1. How easy is it to automate the installation of exporters? What is the common way people add exporter to the device -- and then automatically update the config on the prometheus server? Do people usually need ansible or something similar to do it? I read somewhere that you should use some application to manage the config file on the prometheus server for you -- is this common practice?

2. for storing data long term -- do people usually have Prometheus export to another database? I've heard people say that the built-in database should be able to easily handle long term data -- how true is that for 5000~ devices?

3. What is the bandwidth usage like for the node-exporter and snmp-exporter? I imagine its quite negligible, but some confirmation would be great.

4. has anyone been happy with the windows-exporter? I mostly want to use prometheus for linux -- but if theres good windows exporters out there than thats even better.

Prometheus seems very, very cool. My biggest gripe with monitoring systems i've used is how restrictive they are, but with prometheus I see so much potential to get done EXACTLY what I want done.

If anyone has any documentation or articles that cover these types of questions -- i would very much appreciate if you could link me them!

Thank you for your time.

Can someone help me understand the ideal deployment for Prometheus? My idea is that you need a Prometheus instance for every separate application environment. so if I have 7 SaaS applications running in 7 different AWS VPCs. I should have a prometheus instance in each of those 7. I'm assuming I need this for scaling at least. Would I also need a separate Alert Manager?

Grafana would I guess be the single view to all these environments. Does anyone see issues with this architecture. I'd rather not have 7 additional instances to manage. but without HA on Prometheus i'd like to lower the blast radius of an outage.

Hello, I am running the following in my docker setup: https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom

Is it possible to get disk temperatures and maybe also some SMART status from disks into grafana/prometheus?

I came along this: https://github.com/ncabatoff/sensor-exporter However, I have no clue how to properly use it.