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How “prometheus” trended on Hacker News

“Prometheus” was mentioned 6,564 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jul 2020 with 132 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “prometheus” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “prometheus”

1. 1.Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline 1,250 points · 565 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite 656 points · 156 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs 444 points · 162 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana 354 points · 186 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog 316 points · 114 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible 300 points · 194 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Prometheus: An open-source service monitoring system and time series database 287 points · 114 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Prometheus 2.0 274 points · 41 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus 262 points · 119 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Prometheus 3.0 206 points · 42 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Systems Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana 198 points · 104 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
12. 12.A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19) 190 points · 279 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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