# firehose v0.0.1 released --the prometheus gateway for Java EE (micro) service monitoring

firehose v0.0.1 (ignition) the MIT-licensed, "prometheus metrics gateway" is available as docker image, Thin WAR. 


    firehose connects to (micro) services (Thin WARs), gathers monitoring data and provides it in prometheus-compliant format. Lacking metadata
    can be provided via environment variables at docker start or via HTTP / JSON at runtime. New endpoints can be re-configured on-the-fly.
    One firehose instance can handle multiple endpoints. Firehose is a 16 kB Java EE 7, zero dependency, Thin WAR.



Firehose and prometheus are going to be covered in Java EE Microservices / javaeemicro.services
and Java EE Monitoring, Performance and Troubleshooting workshops.