[aluminussoma]

I very much dislike Prometheus, but the fact that AWS is offering it as a managed service means I am in the minority. I attribute much of Prometheus' success to the influence of ex-Googlers. They joined other companies, had a lot of clout, and sought out a tool that was similar to what they once used.

I understand that the Google version of Prometheus is deprecated but there is no commercial equivalent.

[dilyevsky]

What is in your opinion a better open source alternative to prometheus?

Borgmon was inspiration for prometheus but was a totally different project so it is a complete rewrite

[codeduck]

I feel like a broken record, but we are having great success with Victoria metrics as a drop in replacement.

[heliodor]

Promscale looks interesting. Keep the architecture of Prometheus while storing the data in TimescaleDB and using SQL as the query language (together with the TimescaleDB-specific extensions to it). Does anyone actually like PromQL?

[notesinafield]

Its nearly weekly we bump up against the limits of timeseries aggregation. Id take anything else foss at this point.