Prometheus

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

Prometheus was accepted to CNCF on May 9, 2016 at the Incubating maturity level and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on August 9, 2018.

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Health Score

Excellent (82)

Total contributors

124,231

+11% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

23,124

+8% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

127,346

+11% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

26,319

+10% vs. previous year

Software Value

$38.5M

First commit

May 19, 2012

Prometheus case studies

Cloudchipr client

Cloudchipr client


45% AWS cloud savings

February 16, 2026

How a Cloudchipr’s client reduced Cloud costs by 45%

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison


25+ Kubernetes clusters managed across research and academic environments

December 9, 2025

University of Wisconsin–Madison enhances multi-cluster visibility and control with Cilium

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