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# Metric Monitoring

### Popular Option: Prometheus

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### 4 Key components:

* The TSDB (time series database) actually stores the billions of individual measurements of things like page load time
* The "retrieval" section takes data from various places, like parsing them from log messages or measuring how long individual jobs took, and puts them in the database
* The alert manager sends notifications to the relevant people when INCIDENT
* The web UI is primary used to understand the metrics alerted someone has been alerted of a fault