Anyone using Prometheus as a financial data platfom?
Free and open-source...
https://prometheus.io/
EDIT: Title update.
Free and open-source...
https://prometheus.io/
EDIT: Title update.
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Prometheus for Trading Data Insights?
- Thread starter kmiklas
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Good point... changed title.
That being said, Prometheus does have a time-series DB.
Perhaps usable as a cost-effective algo trading data platform? Visualizations with Grafana?
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https://prometheus.io/
It's a bit of a force.. square peg into round hole.. but the price is nice (FREE) and it's quite powerful.
This answer is wrong... Prometheus is just a time series database shipped with data HTTP scrapers. Mostly used for metrics indeed.
There is no alerting in prometheus itself, but it is often shipped with alertmanager which does that (prometheus is jus able to compare the metrics value with given threshold and mark it as in or out of range -> this is not alerting)
There is no telemetry in prometheus, but it works with telemetry data from various sources
"like datadog, grafana, influxdb telegraf"
datadog - all in one cloud platform. It is diffrent in ficntionalities, the way it it working and being OpenSource...
Grafana - this is just a data visualisation tool (yes often used with prometheus, but it works with 700 or something databases types
influxdb - only a timeseries database...
telegraf - it is a proxy for sending and converting various datatypes
So actually only Influx is kind of like prometheus!
I have tried it once, but given this up as PromQL (the query language for prometheus) was not very suitable for my purposes
But financial data (prices across time) is a timeseries data so prometheus is a perfect database to store it (for me it is just easier to use a standard SQL database and have its queries)