%% date:: [[2023-10-11]], [[2024-07-11]] parent:: %% # [[Pull-based monitoring]] Pull-based [[Monitoring|Monitoring]] is a modern approach to observability. Data is simply "exposed" by services, and the monitoring server is responsible for retrieving that data. Pull-based monitoring of metrics tends to deal with absolute values rather than deltas the way that pull-based monitoring does. [[Push-based monitoring vs. pull-based monitoring]] ## Tools that use pull-based monitoring - [[Prometheus]]