Aetos service overview

The aetos service provides a multi-tenancy layer and openstack authentication for Prometheus.

The aetos service consists of the following components:

aetos

A reverse-proxy, which runs on a central management server, preferably on the same one which runs Prometheus. It provides a subset of Prometheus API. For each request an authentication token is checked before forwarding it to Prometheus. Two privilege levels are recognized. When accessing with lower privilege, which typically means access by a non-admin user, the request is restricted to metrics from the current project only.