Roadmap

The following is only a selection of some of the major features we plan toimplement in the near future. To get a more complete overview of plannedfeatures and current work, see the issue trackers for the various repositories,for example, the Prometheusserver.

Server-side metric metadata support

At this time, metric types and other metadata are only used in theclient libraries and in the exposition format, but not persisted orutilized in the Prometheus server. We plan on making use of thismetadata in the future. The first step is to aggregate this data in-memoryin Prometheus and provide it via an experimental API endpoint.

Adopt OpenMetrics

The OpenMetrics working group is developing a new standard for metric exposition.We plan to support this format in our client libraries and Prometheus itself.

Backfill time series

Backfilling will permit bulk loads of data in the past. This will allow forretroactive rule evaluations, and transferring old data from other monitoringsystems.

TLS and authentication in HTTP serving endpoints

The HTTP serving endpoints in Prometheus, Alertmanager, and the official exportersdo not have built-in support for TLS and authentication yet. Adding this supportwill make it easier for people to deploy Prometheus components securely withoutrequiring a reverse proxy to add those features externally.

Support the Ecosystem

Prometheus has a range of client libraries and exporters. There are always morelanguages that could be supported, or systems that would be useful to exportmetrics from. We will support the ecosystem in creating and expanding these.