We are indeed leveraging open source tools like Prometheus, and not seeking to build our own. We do believe however that the data and insights that Prometheus p

We are indeed leveraging open source tools like Prometheus, and not seeking to build our own. We do believe however that the data and insights that Prometheus provides can be much more impactful to an organization if it is provided in the workflow that developers already use, rather than a separate tool/UI. For example when looking at a CI/CD deploy to an environment, you can easily access important Prometheus metrics and in the future logs, from the same console. This also allows us to build more intelligence into the platform, as GitLab is more aware of your application and its health. One example is to incorporate Prometheus monitoring to compare the performance of a new release in an incremental deployment, and automatically pausing it if key metrics have degraded.