Prometheus is an open-source service monitoring and alerting tool, used for recording real-time services and collecting metrics in a time-series database. It’s written in Go and licensed under the Apache 2 license originally developed by SoundCloud.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Prometheus on an Ubuntu 20.04 server, which can be done easily if you follow it step by step.
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