Showcasing PromLens 0.10.0
October 19, 2020 by Julius Volz
Today we are happy to announce version 0.10.0 of PromLens. PromLens is the ultimate power tool for PromQL that helps you build, analyze, explain, and visualize your queries. In case you are unfamiliar with it, this is what it looks like: PromLens…
The Meaning of "Prometheus" - A Tale of Implementations and Interfaces
October 13, 2020 by Julius Volz
What people mean when they say that they "use Prometheus" or "support Prometheus" is evolving over time. Initially, the Prometheus landscape was very focused on a specific set of component implementations, whereas nowadays the focus is shifting more…
Tags: prometheus, promql
Metric Types in Prometheus and PromQL
September 25, 2020 by Julius Volz
Prometheus has the concept of different metric types: counters, gauges, histograms, and summaries. If you've ever wondered what these terms were about, this blog post is for you! We'll look at the meaning of each metric type, how to use it when…
Tags: promql, data model, metric types, instrumentation
Comparing PromQL Correctness Across Vendors
August 06, 2020 by Julius Volz
Prometheus' query language PromQL is one of the most important interfaces in the Prometheus ecosystem. Organizations rely on it to build their dashboards, critical alerting, and automation. It enables flexible data processing, but it also includes…
Tags: promql, compliance, testing, vendors, cortex, thanos, victoriametrics, timescaledb
Selecting Data in PromQL
July 02, 2020 by Julius Volz
In our last post, we looked at the overall anatomy of a PromQL query. Today, let's look a bit closer at the two ways of selecting data in PromQL: instant vector selectors and range vector selectors. We will examine their use cases, the reasoning…
The Anatomy of a PromQL Query
June 18, 2020 by Julius Volz
Let's have a look at the anatomy of a PromQL query. PromQL has operators, functions, selectors, and more, but let's not get bogged down by those details in this post. Let's instead look at the overall nature of a query: How are PromQL queries…