Created in 2012 at SoundCloud, Prometheus is a time series database used in DevOps for real time monitoring. Prometheus is part of an ecosystem that provides alerting, dashboarding as well as a whole set of tools to bind to your existing datasources but Docker is a virtualization platform that provides a way to easily create, manage and run containers in a single node environment or a cluster. In this tutorial, we are going to install Prometheus with Docker as well as setting up a basic configuration for Prometheus.

Source: LXer – How To Install Prometheus with Docker on Ubuntu 18.04