True, though "end to end monitoring" usually refers to a service check or synthetics rather than metrics. I think before saddling myself with Prometheus I'd try

True, though "end to end monitoring" usually refers to a service check or synthetics rather than metrics. I think before saddling myself with Prometheus I'd try just throwing together collectd or Telegraf first, or some other minimal agent and throw it all into some backend storage with a short lifecycle.