39 engineers on Hacker News describe using Prometheus first-hand: 14 endorse it, 5 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“AI and I spent and afternoon setting up a Prometheus / grafana server, and wiring celery into it. Has been a game changer.”
endorse · production · brianwawok · 2026-01-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Once we implemented proper monitoring with Prometheus + cert-manager, we haven't had a single cert expire unexpectedly.”
endorse · production · builtsimple · 2025-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run a prom+otel+xray stack at scale with grafana as the interface.”
endorse · production · drzaiusx11 · 2025-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Its practically impossible to run a software shop without them”
endorse · production · yarekt · 2025-04-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have good experiences with Prometheus, but I went with sysinfo crate.”
endorse · personal · Blackarea · 2025-02-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It works pretty good tbh. I'm excited about upgrading to version 3, as is does take a lot of resources to keep going”
mixed · production · robinhoodexe · 2024-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Later we switched to Promethius/Grafana and got the same functionality for pennies on the dollar.”
endorse · production · talldayo · 2024-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we migrated to it we replaced 6 prometheus servers with only 1 victoria metrics server, it was crazy efficient.”
regret · production · Sphax · 2024-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Prometheus is pretty good, my only qualm is again the approachability of PromQL.”
mixed · personal · mikeshi42 · 2023-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We ditched Prometheus in favour of Statsd before moving to Kubernetes. We had regular enough releases that we were losing significant data due to the scrape interval”
regret · production · danpalmer · 2023-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I introduced Prometheus + Grafana, it was far simpler to run”
endorse · production · EdwardDiego · 2023-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have been using prometheus at a client for little over a year now... it crashes consistently in k8s.”
regret · production · 1 yr · xiwenc · 2022-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Prometheus seems like overkill but it's just so much less effort because everything already has a prom exporter.”
endorse · personal · jpgvm · 2021-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can recommend Prometheus and thanos as very easy systems to configure.”
endorse · production · lawrjone · 2020-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Prometheus is by far the cheapest, both for infrastructure spend and for human cost.”
endorse · production · lawrjone · 2020-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Prometheus in production and this hasn't been our experience at all. A single machine can easily handle hundreds of thousands of time series”
endorse · production · lima · 2020-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a pair of servers both storing everything... prometheus didn't have a good story on sharding.”
regret · production · user5994461 · 2020-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“fed the expiration times in prometheus to actually be alerted when rotation is broken.”
endorse · production · jrockway · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we can't measure Unicorn timings with Prometheus since it is multi-process. Our Prometheus team is working to fix this for everyone.”
regret · production · sytse · 2017-03-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Prometheus has been much easier to work with.”
endorse · production · bovermyer · 2016-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started using Prometheus for a Go-based app in production a few weeks ago. So far, so good.”
endorse · production · wiremine · 2015-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the usual Prometheus/Grafana/Loki”
neutral · production · adamcharnock · 2026-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have Kubernetes cluster with all DNS Updating, Cert Grabbing and Prometheus monitoring”
neutral · production · stackskipton · 2025-08-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched metrics and logs from an Elastic stack to Prometheus/Thanos/Loki/Grafana about two years ago.”
neutral · production · 2 yr · parliament32 · 2025-03-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We recently switched from Grafana to Prometheus. Reason being that a license refresh took longer to process on their end.”
neutral · production · jterrys · 2025-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Built something generic to monitor MCP servers using events + tinybird + prometheus + grafana”
neutral · production · alrocar · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So I use promethus remote write instead in to Mimir.”
neutral · production · nullify88 · 2023-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“schedule to call a function once per minute or so that scrapes some metrics from a third party API and pushes to a Prometheus gateway”
neutral · production · thraxil · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run a pretty complicated SaaS system... we use Prometheus, we have tracing, we have logs”
neutral · production · YZF · 2022-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run MySQL, ClickHouse, and Prometheus to manage our own SaaS platform for ClickHouse.”
neutral · production · hodgesrm · 2022-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Folks looking for a solution to storing Prometheus metrics from multiple places, definitely consider exploring Victoriametrics.”
neutral · production · mr-karan · 2022-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Just to name the ones we use at Helsinki City.”
neutral · production · gatestone · 2021-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the tricky part was to integrate with https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws and https://github.com/DirectXMan12/k8s-prometheus-adapter”
neutral · production · 0.2 yr · sandGorgon · 2020-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If go's Prometheus library had an easy way to run 'metric.CurrentValue()', I would have tested it... but it didn't, so I didn't.”
neutral · production · jrockway · 2020-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.”
neutral · production · ivyabc · 2020-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We deploy Prometheus out of your list.”
neutral · production · zie · 2020-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There was lot of memory leak when used as the storage for prometheus for our kubernetes cluster.”
neutral · production · Kaladin · 2020-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“whatever they expose (if they) to prometheus”
neutral · production · malkia · 2019-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?