Five Prometheus exporters best practices to increase your productivity

Prometheus has become an essential tool for monitoring in cloud-native environments, specifically within Kubernetes, but many applications and services do not naturally expose Prometheus-formatted metrics, necessitating the use of Prometheus exporters. These exporters help expose necessary metrics and ensure monitoring solutions are effective and scalable. Best practices for using Prometheus exporters include selecting well-maintained projects, understanding the exporter metrics, setting actionable alerts, enabling team access to data, and planning for future scalability. These steps help reduce maintenance burdens and enhance productivity by allowing teams to focus on impactful work rather than constant configuration management. Sysdig offers a solution to streamline these practices, providing comprehensive Prometheus compatibility, out-of-the-box dashboards, and guided onboarding to optimize performance and availability.