Lightning Talk: What if we had PromQL syntax highlighting in MS teams? - Célian Garcia

Presenters Célian Garcia Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your MS Teams Monitoring with Custom Syntax Highlighting 🚀 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s talk about making your daily workflow with MS Teams a little smoother – and a lot more visually appealing. I recently heard a fascinating story from a tech conference about a clever workaround for a common monitoring frustration, and I wanted to share it with you. The Problem: PromQL in Teams – A Color Nightmare 😫 We’ve all been there. You’re meticulously crafting a PromQL query to monitor your infrastructure, and you want to share it in MS Teams. But… it’s just a wall of plain text. 🤯 It’s hard to read, difficult to understand, and frankly, not the best way to communicate complex data. The speaker highlighted a significant pain point: sharing large PromQL queries without syntax highlighting is a real headache. It can lead to misinterpretations and wasted time. The speaker noted that Microsoft Teams currently doesn’t natively support Go language syntax highlighting, leading to a frustrating experience when dealing with complex queries. ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

Counting What You Care About in Your Security Data Pipeline - Attila Szakács

Presenters Attila Szakács Source PromCon EU 2025 Beyond Syslog: Unlock True Observability with Dynamic Logging Metrics 🚀💡 Let’s be honest – logging has come a long way. For decades, Syslog was the king, a reliable workhorse for transporting log data. But as our systems grew more complex, relying solely on Syslog’s basic metrics felt… limiting. It was like trying to understand a city’s traffic flow by only counting the number of cars passing a single point – you missed the bigger picture. 🗺️ ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

From Logs to Metrics: OpenSearch's Prometheus support with Agentic AI and... A. Jadhav, K. Hounslow

Presenters Anirudha Jadhav Kyle Hounslow Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Agentic AI: Making Open Search Observability Accessible to All 🤖 Hey everyone! 👋 Kyle here from AWS, and I’m incredibly excited to dive into a project that’s fundamentally changing how we think about observability – specifically, within the vibrant Open Search ecosystem. We’re talking about Unleashing Agentic AI, and it’s poised to make complex data analysis accessible to users of all skill levels. Let’s explore how we’re tackling the challenges of PromQL complexity and building a future where data insights are truly democratized. ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Lightning Talk: Alert Quorum Universal Aggregator - AQUA - Mirek Chocholous

Presenters Mirek Chocholous Source PromCon EU 2025 Taming the Alert Beast: Scaling Alert Management in the Modern World 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Today, we’re diving into a surprisingly complex challenge faced by many monitoring teams: Alert Manager chaos. We’re going to explore how to streamline notifications, reduce alert fatigue, and ultimately, keep your team – and your boss – happy. Let’s unpack this with Merrick from CDN77, who highlighted some critical issues and a potential solution. ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

Lightning Talk: Correlating Time Series at Scale - Kathrin Paschen

Presenters Kathrin Paschen Source PromCon EU 2025 Unlocking Hidden Connections: A Deep Dive into Time Series Correlation 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever felt like you’re drowning in a sea of time series data, desperately searching for meaningful insights? You’re not alone. This presentation tackled a surprisingly complex challenge – efficiently identifying correlations within massive time series datasets – and the results are genuinely fascinating. Let’s break down the key takeaways and explore how this research could revolutionize your monitoring and observability strategies. 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min