Lightning Talk: Improved Prometheus filtering in Grafana - Victor Marin

Presenters Victor Marin Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Grafana Dashboards: A Deep Dive into New Filtering Features 🚀 Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Victor, a software engineer at Grafana Labs, and I’m thrilled to share some exciting updates we’ve been working on – specifically, a major overhaul of how you filter data within Grafana using Prometheus. We’ve focused on making your dashboards cleaner, more intuitive, and incredibly powerful. Let’s dive in! 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Lightning Talk: Instant Vectors ≠ Scalars - How it bit me - Julius Rickerti

Presenters Julius Rickerti Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding the Mystery: Instant Vectors and Victoria Metrics 🕵️‍♀️ Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever encountered a puzzling anomaly in your monitoring data? Today, we’re diving into a fascinating – and slightly frustrating – experience shared by Julius, a Victoria Metrics user, that highlights a quirky behavior and a crucial lesson about how metrics are processed. Let’s unpack this and see what we can learn. 🚀 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Lightning Talk: Managing Silences - Provisioning Silences into Alertmanager - Théo Brigitte

Presenters Théo Brigitte Source PromCon EU 2025 Silencing the Noise: Automating Alert Management with a Git-Based Operator 🚀 Let’s be honest – managing alerts across a sprawling Kubernetes infrastructure can feel like herding cats. 😼 One rogue deployment, a misconfigured metric, and suddenly everyone is getting paged. 🚨 At Giants Forum, we faced this challenge head-on, and the solution involved a surprisingly elegant blend of Git, Kubernetes, and a little bit of operator magic. ✨ ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

Lightning Talk: PHP and Prometheus For better Metrics - Syed Usman Ahmad

Presenters Syed Usman Ahmad Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Level Up Your PHP Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana 📊 Hey everyone! 👋 Usman from Grafana Labs here, and I’m thrilled to share some insights on how you can dramatically improve the observability of your PHP applications – especially when running them in complex environments like Kubernetes. Let’s dive in! 💡 The PHP Story: From Basics to Kubernetes 🐳 I’ve been working with PHP for 15 years – a long time in this industry! 🕰️ It started with simple scripts, evolved with technologies like Docker, and now finds itself nestled within the powerful orchestration of Kubernetes. PHP’s journey is fascinating, and it highlights a crucial point: as your applications grow, so does the need for robust monitoring. It’s easy to get lost in the complexity, but that’s where tools like Prometheus and Grafana come in. ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

Lightning Talk: Ul To Debug Target Relabeling Rules - Julius Volz

Presenters Julius Volz Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Level Up Your Prometheus Monitoring with Visual Debugging! 🛠️ Monitoring your applications and services is crucial for maintaining stability and performance. But what happens when things go wrong? When a service suddenly stops responding, or a target disappears from your monitoring system? Traditionally, debugging these issues could be a frustrating, time-consuming process. But a recent presentation at a tech conference unveiled a game-changing tool that’s set to revolutionize how we troubleshoot Prometheus. Let’s dive in! ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min