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Presenters Jorge Creixell Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Level Up Your Anomaly Detection: A Smarter Approach 🤖 Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Jorge, and I’m thrilled to dive into a new strategy for anomaly detection – one that’s designed to be more robust and, frankly, smarter. Let’s explore how we’re moving beyond simple threshold-based alerts to a system that truly understands the behavior of your data. 💡 🧱 The Core Idea: Bands Around Your Metrics The fundamental concept is simple: we create bands around your key metrics. Think of it like a safety net – we’re looking for deviations from the expected behavior. When a metric drifts outside these bands, we flag it as a potential anomaly. 🎯 ...

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. ...

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. ...

Presenters Bryan Boreham Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding the Prometheus Puzzle: A Community-Powered Bug Scrub 🚀 Let’s be honest, diving into the world of monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus can feel a little daunting. It’s powerful, complex, and constantly evolving. But what if I told you there’s a secret weapon – a dedicated community effort – that’s quietly working behind the scenes to make your experience smoother? Today, we’re uncovering the “Promeus Buck Scrub,” a fascinating initiative that’s transforming how Prometheus issues and pull requests are handled. 💡 ...

Presenters Roman Khavronenko Source PromCon EU 2025 🕵️‍♀️ Unmasking the Truth: Debugging Queries with Row Data Samples 🚀 Hey everyone! 👋 As a tech blogger, I love diving deep into the nitty-gritty of how systems work. Today, we’re tackling a surprisingly complex issue: the discrepancy between what you see in monitoring tools like Prometheus and Victoria Metrics and what’s actually happening in your database. Let’s explore how viewing row samples can be your secret weapon for troubleshooting. ...