Summary

To better understand the Prometheus philosophy, it is essential to have an insight – even if it's at a high level—into the main components of the Prometheus ecosystem, from data collection via exporters to reliable alerting using Alertmanager, as well as the available visualization options. This is what we covered in this chapter.

In the next chapter, we'll start building a test environment, so that all the concepts we've discussed so far can start to materialize.