diff --git a/database/tsdb/prometheus/README.md b/database/tsdb/prometheus/README.md index 94eea891..4766566b 100644 --- a/database/tsdb/prometheus/README.md +++ b/database/tsdb/prometheus/README.md @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ # Prometheus -### From the [Prometheus](https://www.mongodb.com/) GitHub repository +### From the [Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) GitHub repository The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. ### Resource consumption -As this is a database software, it can take up massive amounts of disk space. Due to Prometheus design, a huge memory consumption is also possible. +As Prometheus is a monitoring software that saves data in a timeseries database, it can take up massive amounts of disk space. Due to Prometheus design, a huge memory consumption is also possible. To get started, a minimum of 3GB RAM and >=2.5GB disk space is recommended. Keep in mind that those numbers can grow pretty quick for large monitored environments!