Lightning Talk: How We Validate User Initiated Config Changes in Promet... G. Michalec & I. Skorjanc
Presenters Gregorz Michalec Ivona Skorjanc Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Prometheus Observability with Automated PR Checks 🚀💡 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s dive into a super practical solution for ensuring best practices are followed when users are modifying your Prometheus configurations. This isn’t a polished presentation – it’s a lightning talk born from a lunch-time brainstorm, but the core ideas are incredibly valuable. 🤖 The Problem: Manual Validation is a Bottleneck 🧱 Traditionally, when users (like those on your platform observability team) create new script targets or alerting rules in Prometheus repositories, the validation process was entirely manual. 🧑💻 This meant a real operator had to manually review every pull request, checking for potential issues. The challenge? This was: ...