What is Promscale?
It is an open source observability backend for metrics and traces powered by SQL.
It's built on the robust and high-performance foundation of PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB. It has native support for Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry traces as well as many other formats like StatsD, Jaeger and Zipkin through the OpenTelemetry Collector and is 100% PromQL compliant. It's full SQL capabilities enable developers to correlate metrics, traces and also business data to derive new valuable insights not possible when data is siloed in different systems.
Promscale is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Promscale is an open source tool with 1.3K GitHub stars and 167 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Promscale's open source repository on GitHub
Promscale Integrations
PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Jaeger, StatsD, and TimescaleDB are some of the popular tools that integrate with Promscale. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Promscale.
Promscale's Features
- Rock-solid stability
- Support for backfilling to ingest data from the past
- Native support for Multi-Tenancy
- High-availability
- Horizontal scalability
Promscale Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Promscale?
Kibana
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Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
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Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
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