Prometheus Runs the Infrastructure

Prometheus was supposed to monitor your infrastructure. Now your infrastructure exists primarily to keep Prometheus running

The meme shows a text-only developer joke about Prometheus, the monitoring system. The punchline is that the infrastructure has become so dependent on Prometheus that it primarily exists to keep the monitoring service itself running, a relatable DevOps reaction to overcomplicated systems.

• @dev_meme / 7779 2026-03-02