# System and service monitoring tool prometheus

Prometheus is a monitoring tool that provides system and service monitoring operations as well as time series database management. Collecting metrics from targets at specified intervals, the system evaluates rules, displays results, and can generate alerts under defined conditions.

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- GitHub Trending · 2026-11-07

## Updates

- **November 7, 2026:** Stars 67,225 → 67,226, latest release v3.16.0 (November 5, 2026).

## What you get

- collects metrics from targets at specified intervals
- evaluates rules and displays results
- can generate alerts under defined conditions

## Installation

**running with docker**

```
docker run --name prometheus -d -p 127.0.0.1:9090:9090 prom/prometheus
```

## Running it

**compiling from source and running**

```
make build
./prometheus --config.file=your_config.yml
```

## If you don't write code

Paste this into your AI agent (Claude Code · Codex · Antigravity)

I want to start the Prometheus system and service monitoring application using Docker. For this purpose, run the command docker run --name prometheus -d -p 127.0.0.1:9090:9090 prom/prometheus.

Repository: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus. Follow the official instructions in the README of this repository for setup and execution.

Before starting, check which OS we are on and if the necessary tools (e.g., Python, Node.js, Git, Docker) are installed. Install any missing ones step-by-step according to this system.

Create a new, empty folder to work in. Do not touch any files outside this folder and do not delete anything. Tell me what you are going to do in one sentence before running each command.

Tell me what I should see on the screen at the end of each step. If an error occurs, I will paste the error message to you exactly as it is, and we will fix it together.

## Related dictionary terms

- [Time Series Database](https://trescout.com/en/dictionary/time-series-database/)
- [Database](https://trescout.com/en/dictionary/database/)
- [Artificial Intelligence](https://trescout.com/en/dictionary/artificial-intelligence/)

- **Who it is for:** developers and system administrators who want to monitor the status of the system and its services
- **License:** Apache-2.0

## Links

- [GitHub repository →](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus)
- [Read in Turkish →](https://trescout.com/discover/prometheus/)

TreScout did not build this tool · we found it in GitHub trends and wrote it up. This page describes the repository as of 2026-11-07: The star count and our text belong to that day, the repository may have changed since. Check the repository link for the current state. The introductory text was prepared with AI from the repository's own documentation, and this page was **machine-translated** from the Turkish original · the Turkish version prevails.

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Source: TreScout Discover · https://trescout.com/en/discover/prometheus/