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Prometheus

apartment 226 companies hiring Radar: Optimizing Apache-2.0 Founded 2012

The monitoring system and time-series database that defined the exposition format OpenMetrics standardised — scrapes metrics endpoints and stores them for querying.

MonitoringObservabilityTime SeriesAlertingMetricsOpenMetrics

Specifications it implements

What this tool does to each specification, in the role vocabulary. Follow a standard through to standards.apievangelist.com for what it actually specifies.

StandardRoleWhat that means
OpenMetrics scrapes
Using this from an agent
Interfaces
containerclihttp-api
Install
brew prometheus
Consumes
openmetrics, prometheus
Emits
json, openmetrics
Runtime
Runs offline Non-deterministic Read-only No credentials

Where it applies

Jobs this tool actually does, and the surface each one is exercised on.

Query operational metrics over an HTTP API to answer questions about a system's behaviour.
coding-agentai-platform

The PromQL HTTP API is a genuinely good agent surface — a precise query language with JSON results, which beats scraping dashboards.

Verify that a change actually improved a measured quantity.
coding-agent
Website
https://prometheus.io/
Repository
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
License
Apache-2.0 — reported by the GitHub API, verified 2026-08-11
Stars
65669 · last commit 2026-08-11
Companies hiring
226 — distinct companies whose job postings name this tool, Q3-2026. A demand signal, not a deployment count.
Also known as
Prom, prom, prometheus
Reading this as an agent? Don't scrape the page — this entry is published as structured data at /tools.json, against the tool.schema.json schema, using the roles.json vocabulary. Start at /llms.txt.
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