kube-prometheus is a monitoring stack deployment and orchestration framework. It uses an operator pattern to automate the installation and lifecycle management of Prometheus and Alertmanager via custom resource definitions.
The project focuses on scaling data collection through hash-based target sharding and topology-aware distribution to reduce cross-zone traffic. It implements a sidecar-based configuration reloading mechanism and utilizes consistent hashing to distribute scrape targets across multiple instances.
The system covers broad observability capabilities including metric data collection, distributed alerting rule evaluation, and alert notification routing. It manages data persistence through dynamic storage provisioning and ensures long-term data availability via object storage backups and remote write configurations.
The implementation is primarily written in Jsonnet.