Why Prometheus is for everyone
Sep 27, 2018Lee Matos

Summary
This post details how GitLab Support and Production teams leveraged Prometheus for debugging critical infrastructure issues, specifically identifying a bottleneck in Amazon's EFS file system impacting Gitaly operations. It highlights the value of Prometheus for real-time metrics, alerting, and faster issue resolution, advocating for its adoption across customer deployments. The post also provides a template for a GitLab.com production-scale dashboard that customers can import.
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