Prometheus is a free and open-source monitoring application used for event monitoring and alerting. It gathers, organizes, and stores metrics in a time-series database. It has gained in popularity and has been adopted by many organizations to monitor their infrastructure metrics. It is written in the Go language and uses HTTP pulls to gather metrics from remote hosts and applications. It uses Grafana to visualize data for monitoring and analysis.
In this post, we will show you how to install Prometheus on Oracle Linux 8.