Effortlessly Scale Prometheus With the Telemetry Data Platform—And Keep Your Grafana Dashboards, Too!
Blog post from New Relic
Prometheus, a widely-used open-source monitoring tool, is now integrated into New Relic’s Telemetry Data Platform to address scalability and management challenges faced by users. While Prometheus is popular for its ease of installation and compatibility with tools like Kubernetes and Grafana, it struggles with issues such as limited data retention, complex management, and scalability constraints. New Relic's platform offers a solution by providing a fully managed, elastic time series database that supports 13 months of retention and seamless data integration, allowing users to query and visualize data efficiently. The integration includes Prometheus remote write capability, enabling users to continue operating their existing Prometheus environments while benefiting from New Relic’s advanced features, such as global data views, enhanced security, and ease of management. The platform also facilitates the transition by supporting PromQL-style syntax and translating it into New Relic Query Language (NRQL) for compatibility.