Prometheus
apartment
228 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.
| Standard | Role | What 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 2026-09-17
- Stars
- 66104 · last commit 2026-09-17
- Companies hiring
- 228 — distinct companies whose job postings name this tool, Q3-2026. A demand signal, not a deployment count.
- Also known as
- Prom, prom, prometheus
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