# Prometheus has come of age - a reflection on the development of an open-source project

DevFeed: [Prometheus has come of age - a reflection on the development of an open-source project](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/prometheus-has-come-of-age-a-reflection-on-the-development-of-an-open-source-project-2116.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//prometheus-has-come-of-age-a-reflection-on-the-development-of-an-open-source-project>)

Published: 2016-07-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prometheus.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>)

Tags: [announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcements.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [cncf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cncf.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prometheus.md>)

## AI overview

This article reflects on Prometheus reaching version 1.0.0, its development at SoundCloud, and its growth into a widely adopted open-source monitoring and alerting system. It describes how Prometheus supported monitoring SoundCloud's growing microservice architecture and contributed to the company achieving its highest availability, while emphasizing the benefits and challenges of developing projects openly under a free software license.

## Source excerpt

On Monday this week, the Prometheus authors have released version 1.0.0 of the central component of the Prometheus monitoring and alerting system, the Prometheus server. (Other components will follow suit over the next months.) This is a major milestone for the project. Read more about it on the Prometheus blog, and check out the announcement of the CNCF, which has recently accepted Prometheus as a hosted project.