Amazon’s managed Prometheus service hits common availability

Amazon has announced that its managed Prometheus service is now usually out there for all firms, after first debuting it in preview last December.

Prometheus, for the uninitiated, is an open supply occasion monitoring and alerting know-how for containerized functions. Containers are primarily software program packages which have all of the parts wanted to deploy functions throughout public, non-public, and hybrid clouds and make sure that they play ball throughout all environments. The Prometheus venture was developed internally at SoundCloud again in 2012, and though it was open supply from its inception, it was finally taken over by the Cloud Native Computing Basis (CNCF) in 2016 — it was the CNCF’s second hosted venture after Kubernetes.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is, as its identify suggests, fully-managed and suitable with the open supply Prometheus. It integrates with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry.

The brand new service is pitched at firms trying to scale their infrastructure to “ingest, retailer, and question operational metrics from containerized functions.” However greater than that, Amazon’s Prometheus providing packs integrations with a bunch of AWS safety and compliance smarts, together with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS CloudTrail, making it simpler for its cloud clients to regulate and audit entry to their information.

At the moment’s announcement comes just some weeks after Amazon launched its managed Grafana service into general availability, giving AWS clients a straightforward solution to deploy Grafana alongside different AWS companies.