Community | Prometheus

The Prometheus project follows the Prometheus governance.
Prometheus is developed in the open. Here are some of the channels we use to communicate and contribute:
#prometheus on CNCF Slack .
#prometheus on irc.libera.chat .
#prometheus:matrix.org.
Web-based discussion forum at discuss.prometheus.io hosted by Discourse .
We have a public calendar for events, which you can use to join us.
If you just want to get an overview, simply use our web view in your browser's time zone .
If you're using Google products, there's an automagic link to add it your own Google calendar .
If you're using a different calendar, there's an .ics to add to non-Google calendars .
To file bugs and feature requests, use the GitHub issue tracker of the relevant Prometheus repository . For questions and discussions, many repositories offer GitHub discussions. Generally, the other community channels listed here are best suited to get support or discuss overarching topics.
Please do not ask individual project members for support. Use the channels above instead, where the whole community can help you and benefit from the solutions provided. If community support is insufficient for your situation, please refer to the Support & Training page.
Please see the Contributor's Guide.
Please see the Contributor's Guide.
The Prometheus project occasionally participates in various, periodic mentoring programs:
See the above links for the future program dates, application details and projects.
Mentors do have limited time, so we have to skip some cycles and programs. There are ways to help us participate more often:
You have been selected for the Prometheus mentorship under LFX or GSoc? Congratulations! Here is some information for a quick start!
There are certain suggestion you can follow to make the MOST out of your time with us!
At the end of the mentorship, it's not the end! You are welcome to continue contributing, coding and helping others. Who knows, maybe you will be passionate enough to become a maintainer one day!
This section outlines mentorship recommendations for mentors.
On the mid-point and a last meeting of the mentorship it's best to sit down with a mentee and collect actionable learnings for both mentors and a mentee. The experience of both Mentors and Mentees is always different due to differences among us, as well as different tasks and circumstances. We always want to check on our experience, no matter if we met the initial goals or not. If goals were not met, then it's extra important to discuss this in an honest and blameless atmosphere. If the experience was mostly positive we also want to know what worked to reinforce best practices.
The example retrospective process looks as follows:
In order to allow mentees to share the knowledge they learned and allow them to improve public speaking skills, at the end of mentorship cycles, mentors can encourage mentees to create some form of public content in the relevant forums. Some ideas we did in the past:
To make Prometheus a welcoming and harassment-free experience for everyone, we follow the CNCF Code of Conduct .
Prometheus is an independent open-source project and not controlled by any single company. To emphasize this we joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2016 as the second project after Kubernetes .
Prometheus was started by Matt T. Proud and Julius Volz . The majority of its initial development was sponsored by SoundCloud .
We would also like to acknowledge early contributions by engineers from Docker and Boxever .
The Prometheus logo was contributed by Robin Greenwood.
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