# Prometheus (/docs/runtime/components/prometheus)



Component Category [#component-category]

Monitoring and debugging / metrics

Component Description [#component-description]

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time-series database for collecting and querying metrics.

Why It Is Used [#why-it-is-used]

In BullSequana AI Runtime, Prometheus is used to gather operational metrics from infrastructure and platform services, enabling health monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis.

Learn More [#learn-more]

* [Prometheus documentation](https://prometheus.io/docs/)
* [prometheus/prometheus on GitHub](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus)

Interacts With [#interacts-with]

* `Grafana`, which consumes Prometheus as the main metrics data source.
* `APISIX`, `NGINX`, `Temporal`, `Tempo`, and `Grafana Alloy`, which expose metrics or service monitors into the monitoring stack.
* `Argo Events` and other Runtime services, which contribute operational metrics for dashboards and alerting.