Prometheus: What is Prometheus

This documentation is part of the Introduction guide. View the full guide here: How Prometheus works.

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Stackhero delivers a fully managed Prometheus cloud platform designed for reliability and simplicity:

• Alert Manager is built in, so you can route alerts directly to Slack, Mattermost, PagerDuty, and other popular destinations.
• A dedicated email server lets you send unlimited email alerts without extra setup.
• Blackbox is included, allowing you to probe HTTP, ICMP, TCP, and other protocols for comprehensive monitoring.
• Configure your instance quickly using the online configuration file editor. There is no need to manage YAML by hand.
• Apply updates with a single click. Stackhero handles the upgrade process for you, minimizing downtime and manual intervention.
• High performance and strong security are built in, thanks to your own private, dedicated infrastructure.

Get up and running in about 5 minutes. Stackhero takes care of the setup so you can focus on monitoring, not maintenance. Try Prometheus cloud hosting on Stackhero to streamline your monitoring and alerting workflows.

Prometheus is a highly adaptable and dependable monitoring system designed to bolster the performance and reliability of various infrastructures. It integrates effortlessly with different environments, including physical servers, virtual machines, and networking hardware. Prometheus collects and processes metrics from predefined targets, enabling the generation of alerts based on specific conditions to keep you informed about your system's status.

The Alert Manager, included in your Stackhero Prometheus instance, facilitates the setup of notification alerts. These alerts can be configured to work with widely-used communication tools like email, Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and others. When integrated with Grafana, Prometheus evolves into a comprehensive monitoring suite, offering interactive dashboards for effective metric visualization and analysis.

Overview of Stackhero for Prometheus