Prometheus

Amazing open source tool for monitoring, very customizable

What do you like best? Approach and philosophy, auto discovery. What do you dislike? Not very easy to start with the product. Learning curve. Recommendations to others considering the product: Try it ! Best monitoring solution in 2020. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Auto discovery for auto scaled machine in AWS for example.

The monitoring way of the future

What do you like best? The entire product stack is open source. Far more flexible than traditional monitoring solutions like Nagios. A wide variety of Prometheus metric exporters already in the community, and many open source products are natively incorporating Prometheus exporters. What do you dislike? Prometheus developers and export developers have punted on security by leaving implementation up to other products. I get that they want to focus on the core of the product, but ...