from Hacker News

Prometheus 2.0

by bbrazil on 11/8/17, 8:24 AM with 41 comments

  • by Dowwie on 11/8/17, 11:53 AM

    The TimescaleDB crew built a Prometheus-PG adapter [1]. TimescaleDB, and consequently Postgres, is an option I am exploring. Does a developer realize any benefits of 2.0 if the Prometheus database isn't used as a backend?

    [1] https://github.com/timescale/prometheus-postgresql-adapter

  • by nopzor on 11/8/17, 5:41 PM

    Really psyched to see this drop, the new engines performance looks amazing. And performance was already pretty stellar to start with!

    Looks like Prometheus is also now the most popular tsdb on github!

    The grafana team is working quite heavily on our Prometheus integrations, with some major recent improvements to the query editor in 4.6. We have many more plans to work even more tightly with the project.

    Kudos to the Prometheus team!

  • by jordan801 on 11/8/17, 2:24 PM

    I was curious what this is, so I clicked on it. I spent around 30 seconds scanning the homepage and this is my observation: Uses data to make insights.

    What kind of data? I have no clue. How? Not the faintest.

    Anyway, you might want to add a portion to describe what it is for us scrubs that haven't a clue. Possibly a demo page?

  • by sz4kerto on 11/8/17, 11:30 AM

    No good migration story for existing data, that'll hurt us quite a lot. :(

  • by SkyRocknRoll on 11/8/17, 9:24 AM

    Does this storage engine onpar with influxdb ?

  • by pfranz on 11/9/17, 4:55 AM

    Literally yesterday I did an install of 1.8.2 after seeing 2.x still in beta. Time to upgrade.

    Congrats to the Prometheus team.

  • by wanghq on 11/9/17, 8:30 AM

    Does anyone need to view metrics older than 2 weeks? What's your solution? I feel it's odd if you rely on a different software, e.g. for the most recent data, use Prometheus, and for older data, use something else. What if I want to compare the same metric in the last 4 weeks?

  • by the_arun on 11/8/17, 1:55 PM

    How Prometheus compares to Splunk?

  • by frik on 11/8/17, 10:52 AM

    Does Prometheus 2 still use the unmaintained charting library "flot charts" ?

    http://www.flotcharts.org/

    No commits since 2014. Unfortunately, because it's a great chart library (actually probably the best free one), only the reliance on JQuery isn't that fashionable.

    Edit: oh, it was Grafana and Kibana that used Flot charts (at least when I tried it two years ago, maybe things have changed) quick Google (2014): https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/222