Prometheus
App in the BluixApps catalog
What it is
Prometheus is the CNCF metrics + alerting system — pull-based scraping, time-series database, PromQL query language. The de-facto standard for cloud-native monitoring; if you're running containers or Kubernetes, you're almost certainly using Prometheus or wishing you were.
For SRE / DevOps teams who want metrics done right — not just collected but queryable, alertable, and graphable — Prometheus is the answer.
What it's for
- Infrastructure metrics — CPU, RAM, disk, network from node_exporter
- Application metrics — request rate, error rate, latency from instrumented apps
- Custom metrics — anything that emits Prometheus-format metrics
- Alerting — PromQL-based alert rules sent to Alertmanager
- Capacity planning — historical metrics for sizing decisions
Who it's for
- SRE / DevOps teams running container or Kubernetes infrastructure
- Platform engineers building observability stacks
- Application developers instrumenting code for production visibility
- Engineering managers wanting KPI dashboards from real metrics
- Hosting providers offering customer-facing metrics dashboards
Why teams pick Prometheus over alternatives
- Apache 2.0 — fully open, CNCF-stewarded
- Pull model — Prometheus pulls from targets; cleaner than push-based
- PromQL — most expressive metrics query language
- Vast exporter ecosystem — thousands of exporters for every service
- Standard format — Prometheus exposition format is the de-facto standard
- Strong Grafana integration — first-class dashboard tool
Integrations
- Exporters — node, mysqld, postgres, redis, blackbox, snmp, hundreds more
- Alertmanager — alert routing to Slack, PagerDuty, email, custom
- Visualization — Grafana (primary), built-in expression browser
- Long-term storage — Thanos, Cortex, Mimir, VictoriaMetrics
- Service discovery — Kubernetes, Consul, DNS, file-based
- Recording rules — pre-compute expensive queries for dashboards
- Federation — hierarchical Prometheus setups for multi-tier orgs
Notable users & community
- 56k+ GitHub stars
- CNCF graduated project (with Kubernetes, Envoy)
- Used by SoundCloud (origin), DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, JP Morgan
- Standard tool in every cloud-native engineering org
- KubeCon / PromCon conferences annually
Tips & operations
- Retention vs disk — 15-day default; longer needs remote write to Thanos/Cortex
- Cardinality is the killer — high-cardinality labels (user IDs, trace IDs) cause issues
- Recording rules for slow queries — pre-compute expensive panel queries
- Alert routing via Alertmanager — Prometheus generates alerts, Alertmanager routes them
- Persistent volume — TSDB lives here; size for retention needs
- Federation for scale — global Prometheus aggregates from regional Prometheuses
What we ship in BluixApps
- Docker compose: Prometheus + node_exporter + cAdvisor + Alertmanager
- Pinned
prom/prometheus:v3.0.0(release-tagged) - HTTPS via Let's Encrypt for UI
- Persistent volume for TSDB
- Pre-configured to scrape host metrics + Docker container metrics
- Auto-detection of Grafana on same VPS for instant dashboard wiring
- Backup hook covers prometheus.yml config + alert rules
Get this app — pick a BluixApps plan
Same catalog. Scaling tenant isolation, white-label and support tier.
| Tier | Tenants | Catalog | Support | White-label | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stacks | 1 | 19 curated stacks | Standard | — | $19/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Starter | 10 | Full catalog | Standard | +$15–25/mo | $49/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Pro | 25 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $149/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Growth | 100 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $349/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Scale | 500 | Full catalog | 7-day window | +$15–25/mo | $799/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Full catalog | Priority 7-day | Bundled | $1,499/mo | DetailDeploy |
