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Prometheus best practices

Source-linked guidance on Prometheus fundamentals: metric and label naming, instrumentation, alerting, histograms versus summaries, and recording rules. Scoped to Prometheus; not a general monitoring or PromQL corpus.

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Alerting on symptoms rather than causes

Aim for as few alerts as possible, alerting on symptoms associated with end-user pain rather than trying to catch every possible cause; alerts should link to relevant consoles…

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Histograms versus summaries

Summaries calculate pre-configured quantiles over sliding windows inside the instrumented program: accurate and fast to query, but the quantiles cannot be recalculated later or…

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Instrumentation by service type, labels, and cardinality

Services fit three main types. Online-serving systems need queries, errors, and latency; count queries when they end so they line up with error and latency stats. Offline…

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Metric and label naming conventions

The Prometheus naming conventions are a style guide and collection of best practices, not a requirement. A metric name MUST comply with the data model for valid characters,…

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Recording rule naming and aggregation

Recording rules follow the naming form level:metric:operations: level is the aggregation level and labels of the rule output, metric is the metric name unchanged except for…

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