Warning: The following are notes I’ve taken during an analysis I made upon tools and methodologies for monitoring and observing distributed systems. After the work, I reviewed them to make them a little bit more discursive.

My primary goal was to evaluate the use of Prometheus to observe systems enforcing the exposure of contextual metrics of the system’s specific business. For sure my goal was not to become an expert in configuring and deploying Prometheus, so don’t be disappointed.