Why developers like Promscale

What is Promscale?

It is an open source observability backend for metrics and traces powered by SQL. It's built on the robust and high-performance foundation of PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB. It has native support for Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry traces as well as many other formats like StatsD, Jaeger and Zipkin through the OpenTelemetry Collector and is 100% PromQL compliant. It's full SQL capabilities enable developers to correlate metrics, traces and also business data to derive new valuable insights not possible when data is siloed in different systems.

Promscale is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.

Promscale is an open source tool with 1.3K GitHub stars and 167 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Promscale's open source repository on GitHub

Promscale Integrations

PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Jaeger, StatsD, and TimescaleDB are some of the popular tools that integrate with Promscale. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Promscale.

PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Jaeger

StatsD

TimescaleDB

Zipkin

OpenTelemetry

Promscale's Features

Rock-solid stability
Support for backfilling to ingest data from the past
Native support for Multi-Tenancy
High-availability
Horizontal scalability

Promscale Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Promscale?

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

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