Features

  • Collects metrics from systems and applications over HTTP
  • Stores data as time series
  • Queries data with PromQL
  • Real-time alerts, graphs and analytics
  • Alertmanager sends notifications by email, PagerDuty and Slack
  • Integrates with tools such as Grafana for visualization
  • Monitoring for cloud, container and Kubernetes environments
  • Open source and self-hostable

Pricing Details

Prometheus is completely freely available because it is open source, can be downloaded and installed on private servers or containers, with all the basic monitoring, alerting, and querying features without any subscription fees, and can be used in any operating environment without license restrictions. There is no direct paid plan for Prometheus itself, but some cloud services that offer Prometheus as a managed component, such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, charge according to the number of samples collected, stored, and queried per month, costs may include storage and queries, and prices vary by provider and region.