Prometheus (An Open-Source Monitoring and Alerting Toolkit) Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Prometheus's main features are: - a multi-dimensional data model with time series data identified by metric name and key/value pairs - PromQL, a flexible query language to leverage this dimensionality - no reliance on distributed storage; single server nodes are autonomous - time series collection happens via a pull model over HTTP - pushing time series is supported via an intermediary gateway - targets are discovered via service discovery or static configuration - multiple modes of graphing and dashboarding support Groupname and Username You must have the "prometheus" group and user to run this script, for example: groupadd -g 368 prometheus useradd -u 368 -s /bin/false -d /var/lib/prometheus \ -g prometheus prometheus