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Prometheus

Pull-based metrics & alerting, CNCF-graduated

provisional — pending verificationApache-2.0self-hostable

Arete score

4.8 / 5

Autonomy5

Return5

Efficiency4

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

Prometheus is listed in monitoring, uptime & alerts because it competes on utility: pull-based metrics & alerting, cncf-graduated. It's stewarded by a non-profit or foundation, which structurally protects it from acquisition-driven enshittification. Licensed Apache-2.0; pricing: free. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: Apache-2.0
Pricing: Free
Funding model: CNCF
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: medium
Replaces: Datadog, New Relic
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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