Prometheus Is Good for Your Small Startup
summary
ShuttleCloud migrates email and contacts for large customers and reports 3 million users imported by Gmail and peaks of 6 TB/hour, so monitoring needs are real. The team replaces ad hoc scripts and dashboards with Prometheus plus node_exporter, blackbox_exporter and a custom CouchDB exporter, moves business metrics from push_gateway to counters and server-side aggregation, and runs a cost‑effective stack that currently monitors 200 instances with a single small Prometheus and Grafana dashboards; the setup works but HA and richer instrumentation remain TODO.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:48Before Prometheus
- 10:38Prometheus
- 14:21High Availability
- 15:33Legacy Systems
- 17:23Alerts
- 20:11Charts
- 21:38Monitoring
- 23:48Custom Metrics
- 24:26Alert System
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