# Prometheus
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Confidence: medium (0.715) (verified)
Last verified: 2026-05-28
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## TL;DR
Prometheus is a monitoring system centered on time-series metrics, labels, PromQL, and alerting rules. Evidence should come from its documentation.

## Core Explanation
Prometheus scrapes or receives metrics, stores them as labeled time series, and evaluates queries and alerting rules over those series.

## Detailed Analysis
The repaired article cites Prometheus overview, data model, and alerting-rule documentation.

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