Grafana Labs Adds Free Prometheus Monitoring Tier>
Container Journal – Mike Vizard
Grafana Labs today announced it has added a free tier to its Prometheus monitoring cloud service that enables IT organizations to more easily monitor a fleet of Kubernetes clusters.

The forever free plan provides IT teams with access to up to 10,000 Prometheus or Graphite metrics, 50GB log capacity and 14 days of retention for metrics and logs that can be accessed by up to three team members, Wilkie says. That access should be sufficient to monitor 10 Linux servers running a couple of Kubernetes nodes, Wilkie says.

At the same time, Grafana Labs is modifying its paid plan by adding support for five times as many metrics starting at $49 per month. A Grafana Pro edition is also available, and provides access to 15,000 metrics with 13-month retention, up from 3,000 metrics previously offered.

Adoption of Prometheus has grown alongside Kubernetes, and Wilkie says the open source monitoring platform is gaining traction in other IT environments as well. Prometheus predates Kubernetes and has always been capable of supporting multiple platforms. But the rise of Kubernetes spurred greater adoption by IT teams that appreciated the solutionâs capabilities, says Wilkie.

In fact, Wilkie says the Prometheus query language (PromQL) is well on its way to becoming a de facto standard, equivalent to SQL, in IT monitoring tools as proprietary monitoring platforms add support for it. Many of those monitoring tools are also now able to consume data in a format that is native to Prometheus.
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