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Choosing the right Prometheus setup

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Choosing the right Prometheus setup

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- [Instructor] To succeed in your use of Prometheus, you need to consider your needs. Here are a couple of things to consider when choosing to set up Prometheus for your monitoring purposes. If you have the right answers to these questions, you're in a much better position to decide if Prometheus is the right tool for you and how it fits into your organization. The first is: Do you understand what your monitoring needs are? What types of metrics do you need to record? What is the scale of the systems you're running at, and what is the complexity of your architecture? Are you running a single service, or are you running thousands of distributed services or microservices? Next, is Prometheus the right tool for your needs? Have you confirmed that Prometheus is compatible with your infrastructure? How easy do you think it'll be to integrate Prometheus? Are there any relevant libraries for the software you run? Will you be able to scale Prometheus? Do you have the engineering resources to…

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