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Cloud Native Observability with Martin Mao

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Is Prometheus a Good Option for Monitoring?

Prometheus was never built to be a distributed system so the data consistency has issues. There are particular reasons why it exposes an API for other solutions like M3 which was our open source time series database and scalable metrics back end that can work in conjunction with Prometheus. However, as you start to scale and have a larger and more complex environment I'll say that that's when you probably need something a little bit more than Prometheus. It does ingest and store metrics which I think is great for detecting when issues go wrong and perhaps the triaging as well.

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