Prometheus

How to Backup and Restore Prometheus

How to Backup and Restore Prometheus

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Backing up Prometheus is critical for preserving your monitoring history and metrics data. This updated guide for 2026 covers modern backup strategies using the Prometheus Admin API, Velero, and volume snapshots in Kubernetes environments with prometheus-operator.

Install Prometheus for Gitlab

Install Prometheus for Gitlab

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Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system with a built-in noSQL time-series database. It offers a multi-dimensional data model, a flexible query language, and diverse visualization possibilities. Prometheus collects metrics from http nedpoint. Most service dind’t have this endpoint so you need optional programs that generate additional metrics cald exporters.