Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana

Value Proposition

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for cloud-native environments. Combined with Grafana Cloud Metrics (powered by Grafana Mimir), it provides a fully managed Prometheus-compatible service with long-term storage, global query performance, and enterprise scalability.

Key Differentiators: Pull-based model, dimensional data model with labels, PromQL, automatic service discovery, scales to billions of active series.

PromQL Quick Reference

Instant Vector Selectors

# By metric name
http_requests_total