Prometheus

Prometheus is the de facto standard for metrics-based monitoring: it collects metrics from servers, containers and applications, stores them as time series and triggers alerts via the Alertmanager before an anomaly turns into an outage. With managed Prometheus Hosting from OpenHosting, you get this monitoring hub up and running – including the operations required to run the monitoring system itself.

The core benefit is transparency and advance warning. Automatic service discovery lets Prometheus find new instances by itself, the PromQL query language lets you flexibly analyse CPU, memory, latency or your own business metrics, and the Alertmanager notifies you by email, Slack or PagerDuty as soon as thresholds are exceeded. Combined with Grafana, this produces informative dashboards.

Who is Prometheus suitable for?

Prometheus is ideal for Swiss IT teams and service providers who wish to professionally monitor their own servers, Docker and Kubernetes environments or applications: system integrators with customer SLAs, software companies with production services, and SMEs with their own infrastructure. Hosting and DevOps teams that need to prevent outages proactively rather than fix them reactively also benefit from the combination of a time-series database and flexible alerting.

Prometheus Hosting in Switzerland

With OpenHosting, your Prometheus runs as a fully managed service in Swiss data centres in the Zurich region – metrics are operational data too and therefore remain nDSG-compliant within the country, without access under the US CLOUD Act. We keep the instance up to date, monitor the monitoring service itself and back up the configuration daily in accordance with the 3-2-1 principle (hourly under the Business plan). You need neither maintain servers nor keep an eye on update cycles.

Our team will assist you with connecting your exporters, building PromQL queries and setting up alerts; you connect dashboards via Grafana. Managed Prometheus Hosting is available from CHF 19 per month with standard retention – the Business plan offers high-performance storage and long-term data retention for historical analysis and capacity planning.