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What is Prometheus on ManageStacks?

Prometheus on ManageStacks is the de-facto open-source metrics platform (a CNCF graduated project) deployed to your own AWS, Azure, or GCP region — priced flat at $29 per instance per month regardless of metric volume, with Alertmanager included, service discovery for Kubernetes/EC2/Consul, and long-term storage via Thanos or Mimir on Business+ plans. Materially cheaper than Datadog or Grafana Cloud metrics for infra observability, and your metric data stays in your cloud.

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About Prometheus

What Prometheus does, and why teams deploy it.

Prometheus is the de-facto open-source metrics collection and alerting platform — a CNCF graduated project used by Kubernetes, most SRE teams, and the majority of production Docker/container deployments. It scrapes metrics over HTTP from configured targets, stores them in a purpose-built time-series database, and evaluates alerting rules on a schedule.

Prometheus's multi-dimensional data model (metrics identified by name + key/value labels), its expressive PromQL query language, and its pull-based scrape model make it the standard interface for infrastructure and application metrics. Every major cloud vendor, Kubernetes operator, and observability tool speaks Prometheus.

Running production Prometheus yourself means running the prometheus binary, sizing local TSDB storage for your retention window (2 weeks is the default; longer retention means bigger disks), configuring service discovery for your dynamic environment (K8s, EC2, Consul), running Alertmanager for notification routing, and — for retention beyond a few weeks or high availability — running Thanos or Grafana Mimir on top for long-term storage. ManageStacks handles all of that.

DIY vs ManageStacks

What running Prometheus yourself looks like — and what it looks like with us.

DIY self-hosting

Install Prometheus + Alertmanager on a VM; size local TSDB storage manually
Configure service discovery for your dynamic environment by hand
Set up Grafana separately and point it at Prometheus
Add Thanos or Mimir + object storage for long-term retention
Test upgrades manually; build federation topology for multi-cluster

On ManageStacks

Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace
Prometheus comes up with Alertmanager, TSDB, service discovery, and Grafana wired in
Thanos/Mimir available on Business+ for object-storage-backed long-term retention
Pre-built Grafana dashboards for node, postgres, mysql, redis, kubernetes exporters
Version upgrades handled by us with zero-downtime rolling restarts on HA plans

CNCF graduated

De-facto open-source metrics standard

$29/mo

Flat per instance, standard tier

PromQL

The metrics query language every tool speaks

Thanos / Mimir

Long-term retention on Business+

Key features

Everything Prometheus ships with, running on our stack.

Multi-dimensional data model with labels + PromQL query language
Pull-based scraping over HTTP with configurable intervals
Alertmanager included — routing, silencing, and grouping
Service discovery: Kubernetes, EC2, GCE, Azure, Consul, DNS, file-based
Recording rules for pre-computed queries used in dashboards
Efficient TSDB storage with compaction and downsampling
Federation for hierarchical scraping across environments
Long-term storage via Thanos or Grafana Mimir on Business+
Native Grafana integration — pre-configured on ManageStacks
Rich exporter ecosystem: node_exporter, postgres, mysql, redis, blackbox, etc.

How it deploys

From subscribe to live in minutes.

Subscribe to ManageStacks through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace.

Provision

Prometheus + Alertmanager + Grafana spin up together with pre-built dashboards — typically 3-5 minutes.

Point scrape targets

Add scrape configs for your services and infrastructure (K8s service discovery, EC2 tags, static targets). Point exporters at Prometheus.

Alert + visualise

Configure Alertmanager routing (Slack, PagerDuty, email), build dashboards in Grafana, and set up recording rules for expensive queries.

Who this is for

Built for teams that want Prometheus to just work.

Platform / SRE teams

You want the CNCF standard for metrics without the Datadog bill. Prometheus is the interface every exporter, K8s controller, and application framework speaks to. ManageStacks runs the collector.

Kubernetes operators

Prometheus is native to K8s — the kube-state-metrics + node-exporter + cAdvisor stack is standard. ManageStacks Prometheus scrapes your K8s clusters via service discovery out of the box.

Teams moving off Datadog / New Relic

APM SaaS pricing is unpredictable at scale. Prometheus + Loki + Tempo on ManageStacks is the OSS observability stack replacement at flat pricing.

Compliance & compatibility

What we handle, what Prometheus runs on.

Compliance & operations

TLS-encrypted scrapes with basic auth or mTLS support
TSDB + Thanos/Mimir object storage encrypted at rest
GDPR data-residency — deployment stays in your chosen cloud region
OS-level and Prometheus security patches applied during your maintenance window
Alertmanager auth + SSO integration on Business+
Audit log on config changes retained per compliance window

Compatibility

Version: Latest Prometheus + Alertmanager LTS (validated before release)
Runtime: Prometheus Go binary on containerised infrastructure
Dependencies: Persistent TSDB storage; S3/GCS/Blob for Thanos/Mimir on Business+
Min. resources: 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM (dedicated); scale with active series count

How ManageStacks helps

We handle the parts you shouldn't be writing yourself.

ManageStacks deploys Prometheus with persistent TSDB storage, Alertmanager, service discovery (Kubernetes/EC2/Consul), and Grafana with pre-built dashboards. On Business+ we add Thanos or Mimir for long-term retention. We handle version upgrades, storage scaling, and the federated topology for multi-cluster observability.

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How it compares

Prometheus on ManageStacks vs the alternatives.

How Prometheus on ManageStacks compares to the vendor-hosted OSS observability offering and the two dominant APM SaaS platforms.

Comparison of Prometheus on ManageStacks against publicly-documented alternatives across deployment model, data residency, pricing basis, custom domain support, open-source status, and data export.
Property	Prometheus on ManageStacksUs	Grafana Cloud (metrics)	Datadog	New Relic
Deployment	Managed on your AWS, Azure, or GCP	Vendor-hosted	Vendor-hosted	Vendor-hosted
Data residency	Your cloud region	Vendor infrastructure	Vendor infrastructure	Vendor infrastructure
Pricing basis	Flat per instance	Per active series + ingest	Per host + per custom metric	Per user + per GB ingested
Long-term retention	Thanos/Mimir on Business+	Included (Mimir-backed)	Included (paid tiers)	Included
Open source	Yes (Apache 2.0, CNCF)	Yes (Apache, hosted)	No (proprietary)	No (proprietary)
Alerting	Alertmanager included	Included	Included	Included

Comparison focuses on architectural properties (deployment model, pricing basis, open-source status) that don't change with vendor pricing pages. Verify current pricing on each vendor's own site.

FAQ

Common questions about Prometheus on ManageStacks.

How long does it take to deploy Prometheus on ManageStacks?

Under 5 minutes. ManageStacks provisions Prometheus with Alertmanager, persistent TSDB storage, service-discovery configuration, and Grafana with pre-built dashboards for the standard exporters (node, postgres, mysql, kubernetes).

How does this compare to Grafana Cloud metrics or Datadog?

Grafana Cloud metrics is priced per active series (~$0.30 per 1,000 series/month at scale) + per ingest. Datadog is per host + per custom metric. Both grow unpredictably. ManageStacks Prometheus is flat $29 per instance regardless of series count. For infrastructure and application metrics under 1 million active series, self-hosted on ManageStacks is materially cheaper. Grafana Cloud / Datadog wins when you want true elastic scale, cross-tenant analytics, or vendor-managed SLOs.

How is long-term metric retention handled?

Standard Prometheus retention is limited by local disk. On Business+ plans we deploy Thanos or Grafana Mimir alongside for object-storage-backed long-term retention — years of metric history queryable from Grafana without changing the query interface. Downsampling reduces storage cost for older data.

Can I configure custom scrape targets and alerting rules?

Yes. Scrape configs and alerting rules manage through a Git-synced config repo (recommended) or directly through the dashboard. Recording rules for pre-computed dashboard queries, silences, and inhibition rules are all supported.

Does ManageStacks handle Prometheus and Alertmanager version upgrades?

Yes. We track upstream Prometheus and Alertmanager releases, test against a representative dataset, and roll forward with zero downtime on replicated setups.

Can I federate multiple Prometheus instances?

Yes. Federation (a top-level Prometheus scraping aggregate metrics from environment-specific Prometheuses) is a standard pattern for multi-cluster or multi-region setups. We configure the federation topology as part of onboarding.

What about high-availability Prometheus?

Standard plan is a single Prometheus with local TSDB. Business+ plans deploy 2+ Prometheus replicas scraping the same targets, with Thanos Query fronting them for deduplication — high-availability metrics with no gap on failover.

What if I want to migrate off?

Prometheus TSDB is portable — copy the data directory or use `promtool tsdb export`. If you're on Thanos or Mimir, the object storage bucket is portable to any Thanos/Mimir deployment. Migration off ManageStacks is a supported operation.

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