Auto-generated coherent Observability - Arthur Sens, Dominik Süß

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! ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

From Manual to Managed: Prometheus Agent Deployment at Scale - Mihail Mihaylov

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. 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

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: Building Prometheus for Platform Engineering - Virginia Diana Todea

Presenters Virginia Diana Todea Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding Platform Engineering: It’s Not About the Answers, It’s About the Questions 🤯 Hey everyone! 👋 Diana here, a Developer Experience Engineer at Victoria Metrics, and let me tell you, I’ve been wrestling with a big question lately. A question that kept me up at night, fueled by cold sweats and philosophical pondering. It’s a question that, frankly, I didn’t even know I needed to ask. So, what is platform engineering? 🤔 ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

Lightning Talk: ObservabilityWithout Monitoring - A Thought Experiment - Igor de Sousa

Presenters Igor de Sousa Source PromCon EU 2025 Beyond Monitoring: The Urgent Need for True Observability 🚀 Let’s be honest, the tech world is obsessed with monitoring. We’re drowning in alerts, dashboards, and metrics – but are we really understanding what’s happening beneath the surface? This presentation challenged that very notion, arguing that true observability goes far beyond simply tracking data. Let’s dive into the key takeaways and explore a crucial shift in how we approach system health. ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min