Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. It is designed for reliability and scalability, particularly in cloud-native environments, and is a significant component of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem. ### Key Features of Prometheus: 1. **Metrics Collection**: Prometheus pulls metrics from configured targets at specified intervals over HTTP. It uses a multi-dimensional data model with time series data identified by metric name and key/value pairs (labels).
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