DevOps

Presenters Björn Rabenstein Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding Observability: It’s Not Just a Buzzword 🚀 Let’s be honest, the word “observability” has been thrown around a lot lately. It’s plastered on dashboards, featured in marketing campaigns, and debated in countless tech circles. But is it truly a revolutionary concept, or just a fancy rebranding of something we’ve been doing for decades? This presentation, delivered by a seasoned veteran of distributed systems and Prometheus, cuts straight to the heart of the matter, offering a refreshingly grounded perspective. Let’s dive in and unpack what observability really means. 💡 ...

Presenters Arthur Sens Dominik Süß Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Level Up Your Observability: Autogenerated Coherent Metrics are Here! 🤖 Observability – the ability to understand what’s happening inside your systems – is more critical than ever in today’s complex, distributed environments. But let’s be honest, are you drowning in a sea of metrics? Are you spending more time deciphering what your data means than actually using it to solve problems? 🤯 This session from Dominik at Grafana Labs and Arthur from Prometheus tackled a huge challenge: telemetry sprawl and how to build a future of truly coherent observability. Let’s dive in! ...

Presenters Jesus Vazquez Alan Protasio Michael Hoffmann Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Level Up Your Prometheus: Introducing Parquet – The Future of Time-Series Data 🚀 Hey everyone! If you’re like me, you’ve probably wrestled with the growing pains of managing massive Prometheus deployments. Scaling Prometheus, Cortex, Mimir, and Thanos can feel like an uphill battle, especially when those query path bottlenecks start to slow you down. But what if I told you there’s a game-changing solution on the horizon? Let’s dive into Parquet, a collaborative project designed to revolutionize how we handle long-term Prometheus data. ...

Presenters Ruihang Xia Source PromCon EU 2025 Rust is Rising: How a New Language is Reinventing Prometheus 🚀 Monitoring your systems has become increasingly complex. We’re drowning in data, struggling to extract meaningful insights, and often relying on clunky, inflexible tools. But what if there was a better way? Today, we’re diving into a fascinating project that’s poised to revolutionize the Prometheus ecosystem – and it’s all thanks to Rust. 💡 ...

Presenters Mihail Mihaylov Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Scaling Observability: How MariaDB Conquered the Prometheus Deployment Challenge 🤖 Let’s be honest, setting up monitoring – especially something as powerful as Prometheus – can feel like wrestling an octopus. 🐙 It’s complex, it’s demanding, and it’s definitely not something you want to be doing manually at scale. That’s exactly the problem MariaDB, a leading observability platform, faced, and the brilliant solution they developed is a fantastic case study for anyone tackling similar challenges. 💡 ...