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13 articles tagged Prometheus, newest first.
7 Best Checkmk Alternatives in 2026 (Compared)
Checkmk alternatives compared for 2026: Zabbix, Prometheus + Grafana, LibreNMS, Nagios Core, Icinga2, Datadog and PRTG, and which fits each scenario.
LibreNMS vs Prometheus in 2026: Network vs Cloud-Native Monitoring
LibreNMS vs Prometheus: SNMP auto-discovery for network gear vs Kubernetes-native metrics with exporters and Grafana, and which to pick for each job.
Zabbix vs Prometheus: Which Monitoring Tool Should You Pick?
Zabbix vs Prometheus compared: pull vs push, Kubernetes fit, alerting, dashboards and storage, plus which tool suits cloud-native or traditional setups.
Homelab Monitoring in 2026: What People Are Actually Choosing
What homelabbers and small IT teams search for, compare and adopt for monitoring in 2026, based on real search demand instead of vendor marketing.
Why Engineers Still Don't Know What Metrics Their Systems Emit
Modern stacks emit thousands of metrics, yet engineers struggle to find which ones exist and where they come from. A public metric registry tries to help.
Why Prometheus Counters Confuse Teams Moving From Datadog
Why counter semantics confuse teams during Datadog to Prometheus migrations, and the query patterns that avoid silent misreads.
How One Team Cut Prometheus Memory From 60GB to 20GB
A real case study on cutting Prometheus memory usage from 60GB to 20GB by identifying toxic labels and reclaiming scrape reliability.
Prometheus Memory Usage: How Dashboards Drove Cardinality
Why Prometheus memory usage climbs when dashboards depend on high-cardinality labels, and how auditing label usage with PromQL cuts series count and RAM.
Why Building Your Own Prometheus Exporter Can Be the Right Move
Building a custom exporter can be the fastest path to useful observability when critical systems lack stable community integrations.
Native Prometheus Instrumentation vs OpenTelemetry for Metrics
A focused argument for native Prometheus metrics instrumentation in specific scenarios, with clear boundaries on where OpenTelemetry remains the better fit.
Why Tesla Picked ClickHouse Over Thanos for Prometheus at Scale
Why large teams sometimes choose ClickHouse over Thanos or Cortex, and what that decision reveals about architecture, cost, and query patterns at scale.
When Monitoring My Homelab Became an Unpaid Second Job
A practical look at monitoring stack sprawl in homelabs and how to simplify alerting, dashboards, and ownership before observability becomes busywork.
Zabbix vs Checkmk vs Prometheus: Lightweight Monitoring
Zabbix vs Checkmk vs Prometheus, tested for lightweight monitoring: setup effort, auto-discovery, and which tool actually fits a small team's stack.