#Monit vs prometheus how to#

For a simple start, IвЂ™d like to just configure two minimally working pipelines on my MacBook without any containerization. These tools are heavily used in Kubernetes. Premetheus keeps metrics and Loki persists log streams. Both Premetheus and Loki resemble Elasticsearch in some aspects. The roles of the components such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana and Promtail are similar to the ELK stack.

Promtail is a log collection agent built for Loki.

Loki supports clients such as Fluentd, Fluentbit, Logstash and Promtail. You can use grafana or logcli to consume the logs. Instead it groups entries into streams, and indexes a set of labels for each log stream. Loki does not index the contents of the logs.

Loki is a log aggregation system, also developed by Grafana Labs.

Premetheus is a CNCF project since 2016 and is maintained by Grafana Labs. metrics information is stored with the timestamp at which it was recorded, alongside optional key-value pairs called labels) and it comes with basic visualization capability. Prometheus collects and stores its metrics as time series data ( i.e. To push metrics to Premethus, you can either integrate your application with client library (in their term, instrumenting), or configure an existing exporters for a third party application such as PostgreSQL.

Prometheus is a time-series database and alerting platform.

More importantly you can also pre-empt potential issues. Monitoring an application can give you insights into how it is being used and when.

#Monit vs prometheus how to#

In this hands-on guide we will look at how to integrate Prometheus monitoring into an existing application. It is the flagship product of Grafana Labs. Monitor your applications with Prometheus. It supports many backends such as Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch and Azure Monitor. So I need to address the issues of shipping both metrics and logs. Having been exposed to the ELK stack extensively, I am also interested in exploring the counterparts in this new stack, such as Prometheus, Loki and Grafana. This week I spent sometime checking out its alternative Loki.

Last month we discussed log shipping with EFK.