Integrate Prometheus with Timescale Cloud

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, and a modern alerting approach.

This page shows you how to export your service telemetry to Prometheus:

• For Timescale Cloud, using a dedicated Prometheus exporter in Timescale Console.
• For self-hosted TimescaleDB, using PostgreSQL Exporter.

To follow the steps on this page:

• Download and run Prometheus.

• For Timescale Cloud:

  Create a target Timescale Cloud service with the time-series and analytics capability enabled.

• For self-hosted TimescaleDB:

  • Create a target self-hosted TimescaleDB instance. You need your connection details.
  • Install PostgreSQL Exporter. To reduce latency and potential data transfer costs, install Prometheus and PostgreSQL Exporter on a machine in the same AWS region as your Timescale Cloud service.

To export your data, do the following:

You can further visualize your data with Grafana. Use the Grafana PostgreSQL dashboard or create a custom dashboard that suits your needs.