The scenario
A C4 container-level view of Prometheus V2 capturing its internal containers and their interactions, including scraping targets, storage, alerting, and visualization.
What is in this drawing
Read the decisions behind it.
01
Modeled Prometheus Server, TSDB, and Service Discovery as core tier containers.
02
Placed exporters (Node Exporter, Pushgateway, cAdvisor, Blackbox) on access tier and linked them to Prometheus via scrape paths.
03
Represented Alertmanager to external destinations with a directed edge, while Grafana queries Prometheus.
Use this diagram when documenting Prometheus architecture at container granularity for onboarding, review, or infrastructure planning.
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