Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Prometheus as Second Hosted Project

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84 points·jrv··6 comments

"What are these things?" you might ask.

> The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a nonprofit organization committed to advancing the development of cloud native applications and services by creating a new set of common container technologies informed by technical merit and end user value, and inspired by Internet-scale computing.

> Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

You may have heard of the CNCF because their first hosted projected is Kubernetes, which natively supports Prometheus metrics.

The CNCF is also part of the Linux Foundation's Collaborative Projects, which houses other organizations like Let's Encrypt and Node.

What amazes me about this ecosystem is the corporate partners working together in a nonprofit manner to advance open source software. I think many of us imagined a bleaker, proprietary future. There's still a long way to go.

Prometheus is/was the internal code name of a really ambitious cloud project by a major player. This isn't about that prometheus.

Care to say more?

No, I'm just saying that this name is taken. Uh, better. It is already taken, better. :)

Prometheus the monitoring application is around four years old. It may predate your secret project.

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