Summary

We’ve come to the end of our time together. I hope that you’ve enjoyed our time together as much as I have and that you’ve learned as much reading this book as I did writing it. Even with all the love I have for Prometheus, it is not the end-all-be-all of observability. It is but a piece in a much larger picture.

What precisely that picture looks like will vary from company to company and over time. As time progresses, new telemetry signals may become popular and be considered “core” observability signals. However, I feel confident in saying that metrics, logs, and traces are all here to stay. If you can build out your observability platform to cover all three of them, you’ll be in a better position to monitor and observe your systems than the majority of people in our industry.

So, go forth with your new-found knowledge and use Prometheus as the cornerstone of your observability platform. Build it, scale it, tweak it, and tune...