[SEJeff]

FWIW, when I met Paul Dix a few months ago, he had nothing but good to say about the new Prometheus. They released this blog post shortly after our meeting:

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-now-supports-promet...

I wouldn't see them as competitors so much as complimentary. Influx is really going for the long term tsdb storage, whereas prometheus is more shorter term with higher resolutions and alerting.

[pauldix]

Yup, I'm definitely a fan of their work. The new engine is a great design and all the work on the metrics standard is great. Having that as a standard format for service implementors to expose performance metrics is invaluable and we're going to support that as much as we can.