[_lbaq]

What is the typical user/customer of this system ? I've found it very hard to get customers to spend time configuring a motoring system, let alone writing any scripts to gather data.

[bbrazil]

I'm not sure there is a typical user. We've got everything from single-sysadmin small companies to Fortune 500s to companies looking to integrate it into their products.

https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/03/23/interview-with-life360... and https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/05/01/interview-with-showmax... look at two of our users.

[_lbaq]

What is the business model, do you charge per input, server core or ?

[jrv]

No business model - Prometheus is 100% free and open-source and independent of any one company. We have also joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://cncf.io/) as the second member project after Kubernetes: https://cncf.io/news/announcement/2016/05/cloud-native-compu...

Read more here: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/ and here: https://prometheus.io/community/

[bbrazil]

It's open source, so there's no charge for the software.

[jrv]

Yeah, it goes from people putting Prometheus on their Raspberry PI all the way to companies like DigitalOcean monitoring millions of machines with Prometheus (https://promcon.io/talks/scaling_to_a_million_machines_with_...).

A lot of open-source projects (Kubernetes, Etcd, ...) are also exposing native Prometheus metrics now, making it easier to integrate with those.

EDIT: also check the PromCon schedule for other user companies giving talks: https://promcon.io/schedule/

And the sponsors are also users: https://promcon.io/#our-sponsors

[tex0]

We write most of our Stack ourself in Go and integrate the Prometheus instrumentation right away.