We Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in One Month

Описание и применение

Команда мигрировала с StatsD на Prometheus за один месяц, улучшив хранение, запросы и оповещения.

Задача

The team needed a more scalable, queryable metrics system than StatsD, which had limitations in data retention and alerting.

Результат

The migration completed in one month, providing scalable storage, richer queries, and improved alerting while maintaining dashboard continuity.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Assessed current StatsD setup and identified gaps.
• 2. Designed Prometheus architecture with remote write to long‑term storage.
• 3. Implemented Prometheus exporters for existing services.
• 4. Migrated dashboards from Grafana to Prometheus data source.
• 5. Configured alerting rules in Prometheus Alertmanager.
• 6. Decommissioned StatsD after validation.
• 7. Monitored performance and adjusted retention policies.

Доказательства

We migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in one month

Источник

We were using StatsD for metrics collection and Grafana for dashboards

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We designed a Prometheus architecture with remote write to long‑term storage

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