It is an open source observability backend for metrics and traces powered by SQL. It's built on the robust and high-performance foundation of PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB. It has native support for Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry traces as well as many other formats like StatsD, Jaeger and Zipkin through the OpenTelemetry Collector and is 100% PromQL compliant. It's full SQL capabilities enable developers to correlate metrics, traces and also business data to derive new valuable insights not possible when data is siloed in different systems.
Promscale is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
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Zipkin, StatsD, Jaeger, Prometheus, PostgreSQL and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Promscale. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Promscale.