Metrics
:chart_with_upwards_trend: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on. (by dropwizard)
prometheus
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. (by prometheus)
| Metrics | prometheus | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 455 | |
| 7,842 | 58,188 | |
| 0.0% | 1.3% | |
| 9.4 | 10.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Java | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Metrics
Posts with mentions or reviews of Metrics.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.
- Dropwizard 2.1.0 has been released
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Metriki: a client-aggregate metrics library ported from Dropwizard Metrics
I have been a loyal user of Java's Dropwizard Metrics library. And it's the most important missing part when our team writing a large-scale rust application. So I decide to port the library to Rust: Metriki
prometheus
Posts with mentions or reviews of prometheus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-16.
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Beyond the Buzzwords: The Relevance of DORA Metrics in Contemporary Cloud Hosting for Developers
Monitoring/Recovery: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, New Relic
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Hardware Metrics Collection with IOT Devices
Prometheus is a production grade metrics aggregator widely used in the industry. It provides an extensive list of exporters to pull metrics from. For example, to scrape metrics delivered with node exporter, you need to add the following scrape configuration:
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Building a declarative home lab using k3s, Ansible, Helm on NixOS and Rocky Linux
Prometheus
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API Analytics: A Strategic Toolkit for Optimization
Prometheus: For the open-source fans, Prometheus offers robust monitoring and alerting, especially for microservices. Prometheus and Grafana together create a monitoring powerhouse.
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How to Integrate PromPHP with Laravel's Cache Facade for Prometheus in (5 minutes)
In Laravel applications, Prometheus is a powerful tool for monitoring and metrics collection, especially when using packages for Laravel Prometheus like Spatie's. However, Spatie's package (at the time of writing this article) doesn't support all Prometheus features like counters & histograms, even though the relevant methods are present in the Prometheus class.
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Mastering Modern Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide to Grafana, Prometheus, and DORA Metrics
wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.47.0/prometheus-2.47.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz tar xvfz prometheus-*.tar.gz sudo mv prometheus-2.47.0.linux-amd64/prometheus /usr/local/bin/ sudo mv prometheus-2.47.0.linux-amd64/promtool /usr/local/bin/
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Introduction to Prometheus & Grafana for Observability
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that is widely used in cloud-native ecosystems. It is the default monitoring solution for Kubernetes and supports metrics-based monitoring with a pull-based data collection model.
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Future AI Deployment: Automating Full Lifecycle Management with Rollback Strategies and Cloud Migration
AI Observability Tools: Prometheus, Grafana
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Implementing monitoring and alerting for distributed system - Part 6
In this post, we will set up metrics and alerting in our e-commerce system userd and orderd services using Prometheus
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An Introduction to Cosmo Router — Blazingly Fast Open-Source Federation V1/V2 Gateway
With Cosmo’s Router, you also get Prometheus metrics — the battle-tested, open-source (Apache License) service monitoring system — and R.E.D metrics , meaning you have a full metrics stack for fine-grained insights into router traffic, the error/success rates or the average request/response times/sizes of specific operations, and in general, everything you need to identify bottlenecks and optimize the performance of your system.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Metrics and prometheus you can also consider the following projects:
JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications
Glowroot - Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM
Kamon - Distributed Tracing, Metrics and Context Propagation for applications running on the JVM
Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin