Prometheus

Lesson in the DevOps Roadmap · Stage 15: Infrastructure Monitoring

Last updated 14 September 2026

What is Prometheus?

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit originally developed at SoundCloud. It collects metrics by scraping HTTP endpoints at defined intervals, stores them in a time-series database, and provides a powerful query language called PromQL to analyze and alert on that data.

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Free resources to learn Prometheus

Official docsPrometheus Website
VideoIntroduction to the Prometheus Monitoring System | Key Concepts and Features

Prometheus: common questions

Can I learn Prometheus in Hindi?

This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Prometheus in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.

Is this Prometheus tutorial for beginners?

It is lesson 98 of 137 in the free DevOps roadmap, in stage 15, Infrastructure Monitoring. If you are new to DevOps, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.