Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open source project and maintained independently of any company
In this guide we will use Debian based Linux distribution version 10 (Buster). If you are using an Cloud Instance like in Amazon Web Service you can use the default provided Ubuntu Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Debian 10 (Buster) 64-bit when you are provisioning it