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Tomcat has been a trusted platform for managing your Java based web applications, Java Server Pages (JSPs) and Java Servlets. But who is the one reliable soldier watching Tomcat’s back while you are boosting the efficiency of your organization? We have the answer: your monitoring tool. Complete visibility into the infrastructure and comprehensive insights ensure IT administrator can properly manage their organization’s IT infrastructure.

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been a cornerstone for IT professionals and system administrators for years. It provides essential tools for monitoring and managing an organization’s IT infrastructure health, performance, and security. With each new release, Microsoft introduces enhancements and updates to make SCOM even more powerful and user-friendly.

This article will focus on the popular monitoring tool Prometheus, and how to use PromQL. Prometheus uses Golang and allows simultaneous monitoring of many services and systems. In order to enable better monitoring of these multi-component systems, Prometheus has strong built-in data storage and tagging functionalities. To use PromQL to query these metrics you need to understand the architecture of data storage in Prometheus, and how the metric naming and tagging works.