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37 lines
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# Prometheus
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Bedecke deinen Himmel, Zeus! A new kid is in town.
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Prometheus is a generic time series collection and computation server that is
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useful in the following fields:
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1. Industrial Experimentation / Real-Time Behavioral Validation / Software Release Qualification
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2. Econometric and Natural Sciences
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3. Operational Concerns and Monitoring
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The system is designed to collect telemetry from named targets on given
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intervals, evaluate rule expressions, display the results, and trigger an
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action if some condition is observed to be true.
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## Prerequisites
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1. Go 1.0.X. [GVM](https://github.com/moovweb/gvm) is highly recommended as well.
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2. LevelDB: (https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/).
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3. Protocol Buffers Compiler: (http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/).
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4. goprotobuf: the code generator and runtime library: (http://code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/).
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5. Levigo, a Go-wrapper around LevelDB's C library: (https://github.com/jmhodges/levigo).
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6. GoRest, a RESTful style web-services framework: (http://code.google.com/p/gorest/).
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7. Prometheus Client, Prometheus in Prometheus (https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang).
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8. Snappy, a compression library for LevelDB and Levigo (http://code.google.com/p/snappy/).
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## Getting started
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For basic help how to get started:
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* For Linux users, please consult the Travis CI configuration in _.travis.yml_.
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* [Getting started on Mac OSX](documentation/guides/getting-started-osx.md)
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## License
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Apache License 2.0
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