> Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system.
If we use GitHub stars as some measure of relative popularity (or at least awareness): Prometheus has 55.7k stars. For comparison, Ruby on Rails has 56.1k stars, ranked only two spots ahead of Prometheus in GitHub repos with most stars.
So why doesn’t every post on HN about Rails have a comment like yours?
sigh To save those of us not familiar with every, say, web application framework, ...
> Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Maybe you are just one of today’s 10,000 lucky people? https://xkcd.com/1053/