Prometheus - Rambling Ideas

Rambling Ideas

Prometheus

A collection of 2 posts

Better AWS CloudWatch Exporter: Ingestion Architecture Overview

Software Engineering

Better AWS CloudWatch Exporter: Ingestion Architecture Overview

How to leverage AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams to build a Prometheus exporter for AWS metrics: overall ingestion architecture, pros and cons versus using the CloudWatch API.

The Unsatisfying State of Prometheus-Based Monitoring of AWS Infrastructure

Software Engineering

The Unsatisfying State of Prometheus-Based Monitoring of AWS Infrastructure

Given that Prometheus and AWS are both industries standards, once would - incorrectly - assume that it would be easy to ingest AWS metrics into Prometheus. Here I explore the main flaws in the current tooling to ingest CloudWatch metrics into Prometheus.