Having assisted hundreds of enterprises in developing a new visibility strategy as they move to Kubernetes, I’ve learned a few things about how organizations learn, evolve and adopt a new method of application observability. Open source is usually essential to developing this understanding.
In the cloud-native monitoring world, Prometheus is widely considered the place to start. Just like Kubernetes is the leading open source container orchestrator in the cloud-native world, Prometheus is the leading software choice for open source cloud-native monitoring. If you’re looking for more detail on what Prometheus is and how it works, read this nice Prometheus monitoring summary. While most organizations end up not using unsupported open source in production, many start here. Where you end up depends on your own business’s requirements. Let me briefly cover the three phases I typically see enterprises go through on their way to a production-ready strategy.
