Prometheus Lifecycle: End Of Life And Support Status
Last updated on February 26, 2025
Prometheus is an open-source software for system monitoring and alerting, developed by the engineers at SoundCloud. Prometheus is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and is a component of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
This software is mostly used by DevOps engineers to keep the development environments always up but can be used by other professionals, such as network administrators.
Support status guide
End of life (EOL) is the end of a product’s useful life. When a product reaches the end of its life cycle, the manufacturer no longer supports it. The following table explains the different phases of a product’s lifecycle. Testing status is when the product is initially released and EOL is when product support is no longer offered. The time between these two points is the support timeframe.
Testing
The software is not yet publicly available. It is in testing phase i.e., alpha, beta, release preview etc.
Active
The software is actively supported by the vendor.
Phasing Out
The software will soon reach its end of life. You need to look for upgrade or migration options. The software will automatically go into phasing out status 2 months before end of life.
End Of Life
The software is no longer supported by the vendor. You need to make sure your system and environment are safe.
Version
Released
Security Support
A new version of Prometheus is released every six weeks. Bugfixes for minor versions usually stop being released after those six weeks. Users frequently have to update to the most recent Prometheus release if they are affected by a bug in a minor release.
The LTS versions of Prometheus are supported for a year, during which they receive bug, security, and documentation fixes. The experimental features, features marked unstable, and OpenBSD support are excluded from the LTS releases.
EOLs