Talk:Prometheus (software)

Draft review concerns
I think that the existence of books like (though it's not independent) should be sufficient to demonstrate notability. There are certainly still content issues, I'll try to repair them (initially by removing the unnecessary/promotional/tech manual content). Due to a declared potential conflict-of-interest, I will not be accepting this draft myself. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 02:46, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree the product is notable. The announcement from the CNCF promoting the product to graduation level like K8s is another measure of respect by the cloud community.  - DutchTreat (talk) 14:13, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * , yes, I also believe the book reference meets the criteria for establishing notability. Even though the author is described as a "Prometheus Developer" and is well known in the community, he is still an independent expert in my opinion. Checking further, Monitoring with Prometheus is another book that I believe meets the criteria for establishing notability. On that basis, I'm happy to accept this topic is notable and the draft should be acceptable. I'll wait for  comments first.  HighKing++ 20:53, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * sure; that would be fine. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:13, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * sure; that would be fine. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:13, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Dimensionality v. Cardinality
In a edit Special:PermanentLink/953838796, the statement "allowing for high dimensionality" was removed with comment quoting a warning from the docs: "High cardinality is actually a problem for Prometheus due to it's data model being optimized for bounded dimensionality. See "Caution" here: naming"

From my reading of the warning, the database supports many dimensions, yet within a dimension, the cardinality must be limited. If this is true, then the original statement was true. Comments? Am I miss understanding the warning? - DutchTreat (talk) 13:02, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Primary sources cleanup tag
This page borders on promotion and most of its content is just the use of primary sources to document its features. There are third party books about it (O'Reilly has one; there are several others) that might be used to better this article if someone has access to them. FalconK (talk) 01:27, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Digital Ocean link
When they tell about Digital Ocean they mean this company https://www.digitalocean.com/ and not the one linked in article.

Is the first sentence inaccurate?
"Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting.[2] It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting"

It sounds like Prometheus implements more than just "monitoring and alerting". Based on the 2nd sentence it sounds like Prometheus collects real-time performance metrics and then generates events (alarms) based on queries against the collected data. I don't use Prometheus so I don't know, is my supposition correct?

cleanup: any reason to keep conference list?
Is there any reason to keep the listing of conferences? It adds noise without increasing understanding or context. It would be enough to replace the entire section with a sentence like "There have been more than X conferences held on Prometheus since 20YY." 173.73.119.209 (talk) 01:16, 25 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm going to remove them. They were added in two edits on Sept 18, 2022. Conference records about a piece of tech are not relevant to people reading about that tech unless something very notable happened at the conference or if the tech's specific purpose is to generate conferences. 82.166.106.203 (talk) 15:19, 27 March 2023 (UTC)