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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. ...

Presenters Israel Blancas Source PromCon EU 2025 🚨 Unmasking Telemetry Trouble: Preventing Data Loss & Bottlenecks in OpenTelemetry 🚀 Let’s be honest – OpenTelemetry is amazing. The promise of automatic instrumentation, a unified observability solution – it’s almost too good to be true. But as Coral Logix’s Israel brilliantly demonstrated, chasing that “magical” automatic approach without a solid strategy can lead to a whole heap of problems. This presentation wasn’t about how to use OpenTelemetry, it was about how not to – specifically, how to avoid the common pitfalls that can turn your observability investment into a frustrating data graveyard. 💀 ...

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. ...