AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud

What is prometheus?

Prometheus: An open-source monitoring system that regularly pulls numeric metrics from services, stores them as time series and supports a query language, PromQL, and alert rules. It is a standard choice for Kubernetes monitoring.

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Prometheus: an example

Prometheus scrapes a model server's `/metrics` page every 15 seconds and alerts if p95 latency exceeds 500 ms.

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Prometheus is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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