Prometheus: My Life in a Time Series Database
I aggressively use Prometheus in my day-to-day life, not just for regular technical and application metrics, but for everything I can get an exporter for.
I have a Prometheus exporter for my Gmail inbox (personal and work), for my Google calendar (mostly work), all my websites I’ve written export prometheus metrics, I monitor my servers CPU and Memory usage with Prometheus metrics, but also their Hard Drive SMART status. I even have a Prometheus exporter for my fledgling weight loss program. Domain expiry, GitHub stars, virtual machine status, even databases and the watch status of my media library!
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James is a "full stack" Open Source enthusiast, who enjoys creating no-nonsense open source software.