The 4 Types Of Prometheus Metrics

In this video you’ll discover what are the different types of Prometheus metrics, how to decide which one is right for a specific scenario, and how to query them.

Prometheus is an excellent tool for gathering metrics from your application so that you can better understand how it’s behaving. When deciding how to publish metrics, you’ll have 4 types of metrics to choose from.

▶️ Counters 1:23
▶️ Gauges 3:38
▶️ Histograms 5:43
▶️ Summaries 9:45

📚 Resources 📚

✅GitHub repository to follow along with examples in this video: https://github.com/tkgregory/metric-types
✅this video in blog post format: https://tomgregory.com/the-four-types-of-prometheus-metrics
✅high-level introduction video "Why use Prometheus?" https://youtu.be/NqUWL_0rQ5Y
✅technical introduction video "Monitoring A Spring Boot Application" https://youtu.be/PFVEFs1r0Is
✅official Prometheus docs on the different metric types: https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/metric_types
✅in depth comparison of histograms and summaries: https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms

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