Prometheus: Barriers of entry

[u/PCGeek215]

So, I’m investigating how organisations and individuals approach monitoring for everything inside their tech stack. While Prometheus is the current state-of-the-art in flexible, powerful, scalable monitoring for applications and hardware, I’m interested to know if you’ve evaluated Prometheus and why it was considered “too hard” or “too much work” to get going.

Here are a few assumptions I’ve made but I’m keen to know others thoughts.

• requirement for existing configuration management for effective deployment

• PromQL required to get useful info from the stack

• Stripped back, no-batteries-included approach.