diff --git a/monitoring/prometheus/README.md b/monitoring/prometheus/README.md index 4766566b..b741ab7f 100644 --- a/monitoring/prometheus/README.md +++ b/monitoring/prometheus/README.md @@ -1,14 +1,17 @@ # Prometheus -### From the [Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) GitHub repository +## From the [Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) GitHub repository + The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. -### Resource consumption +## Resource consumption + As Prometheus is a monitoring software that saves data in a timeseries database, it can take up massive amounts of disk space. Due to Prometheus design, a huge memory consumption is also possible. To get started, a minimum of 3GB RAM and >=2.5GB disk space is recommended. Keep in mind that those numbers can grow pretty quick for large monitored environments! -### Server Ports +## Server Ports + Ports required to run the server in a table format. | Port | default |