Set up Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, storage, and monitoring of infrastructure and applications. Use when implementing metrics collection, setting up monitoring infrastructure, or configuring alerting systems.

Prometheus Configuration Complete guide to Prometheus setup, metric collection, scrape configuration, and recording rules. Purpose Configure Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, alerting, and monitoring of infrastructure and applications. When to Use Set up Prometheus monitoring Configure metric scraping Create recording rules Design alert rules Implement service discovery Detailed patterns and worked examples Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md . Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient. Best Practices 1. Use consistent naming for metrics (prefix name unit) 2. Set appropriate scrape intervals (15 60s typical) 3. Use recording rules for expensive queries 4. Implement high availability (multiple Prometheus instances) 5. Configure retention based on storage capacity 6. Use relabeling for metric cleanup 7. Monitor Prometheus itself 8. Implement federation for large deployments 9. Use Thanos/Cortex for long term storage 10. Document custom metrics Troubleshooting Check scrape targets: Check configuration: Test query: Related Skills grafana dashboards For visualization slo implementation For SLO monitoring distributed tracing For request tracing

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