Prometheus & Grafana (Overview)

Summary

A widely used open-source pairing for metrics — Prometheus collects and stores time-series metrics (request counts, latencies), and Grafana turns them into dashboards.

• 1Read how Prometheus 'scrapes' metrics from your application on an interval.
• 2Look at example Grafana dashboards to understand what's typically monitored (latency, error rate, throughput).
• 3Recognize this pairing is the de facto standard for infrastructure monitoring at most companies.