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It's crowded because there isn't a clear leader.

• bbrazil 10y ago
  Speaking as a Prometheus developer, each is suited to different things. For example if you want to store timeseries data long term and already use HBase then OpenTSDB is a good choice. On the other hand if you want to do monitoring that's simple and dependable in an emergency with querying, graphing and alerting over short/medium-term data, then Prometheus would a good choice.
  • pmahoney 10y ago
    > short/medium-term data This in particular, but your entire post, would be a great addition to the Prometheus front page, or top of the documentation section. This wasn't clear to me initially, speaking as someone who evaluated prometheus a few months ago.
    • bbrazil 10y ago
      We plan on seamlessly integrating with long-term storage (https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/roadmap/#long-term-storage https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/roadmap/#long-term-s...) and OpenTSDB is one option for that for us. Ignoring that as it's planned work, the typical considerations are more around availability vs. consistency and that we're a metrics system focused on operations rather than a event store. Most of that's already covered in our docs. See https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/#when-does-it-fit https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/#when-does-... and https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/faq/ https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/faq/