Prometheus Cheat Sheet

This section documents the current Prometheus 3.x line (latest 3.14.0) as published at the Prometheus documentation and the current Grafana 13.x line (latest 13.2.1) as published at the Grafana documentation, which are the references these pages are written and verified against. No specific patch version is pinned. Some capabilities (Grafana Enterprise-only features, Grafana Cloud-hosted services, and long-term-storage systems like Thanos/Cortex/Mimir) are linked, not documented in depth.

This content was generated with the assistance of AI and should be verified against the official documentation before being relied on in production, since both projects iterate quickly.

This section’s bibliography lists the reference material consulted while preparing these pages.

A single-page index of quick back-links to every page in this section, grouped the same way as the section itself — handy for jumping straight to the topic you need instead of paging through the full navigation.

Fundamentals — Getting Started, Architecture & Ecosystem, Data Model & Metric Types, Instrumenting Applications, and Exporters & the Pushgateway.

PromQL — PromQL: Basics & Selectors, PromQL: Operators & Aggregation, and PromQL: Functions.

Operations — Service Discovery & Relabeling, Containers & Kubernetes Monitoring, Storage, Federation & Remote Write, and Security & Production Operations.

Alerting & Grafana — Recording & Alerting Rules, Alertmanager, Grafana: Dashboards & Visualization, and Grafana Alerting.

Everything here is verified against the official Prometheus documentation and the official Grafana documentation.

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