# prometheus
**Licence:** Apache-2.0 | **Language:** Go | **Source:** https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
## Role
Metrics collection and storage
## Why it's here
The default for time-series metrics. Scrapes your services and stores what it finds.
## Running it
Started by `docker compose up -d` on port 9090.
```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/prometheus.tar.gz -C ./sources
```