# Prometheus Compatible

**Apica Ascent** also supports external **Prometheus** compatible data sources e.g. *Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics*. If you have any hosted such an instance in the cloud or on-premises, you can connect that in Apica Ascent as a data source. you can use your existing queries in Apica Ascent to build dashboards and create alerts.

Please see the [Infra & Application Monitoring](https://docs.apica.io/observe/prometheus) section to know about configuring various data sources.