CPU Hardware Counters - Bryan Boreham

Presenters Bryan Boreham Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Unlocking System Secrets: A Deep Dive into CPU Hardware Counters 🧠 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever wondered exactly what’s happening inside your computer’s CPU when it’s working hard? Today, we’re diving deep into a fascinating, often-overlooked area: hardware counters. This presentation from PromCon, led by the brilliant Bryan Boreham, revealed a world of granular performance insights hidden within your CPU’s core – and it’s way more exciting than you might think! 🤯 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Eight definitions of “observability” vs. “monitoring” – and why none of them work - Björn Rabenstein

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. 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Beyond TSDB: Unlocking Prometheus with Parquet for Modern Sc... J. Vazquez, A. Protasio, M. Hoffmann

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. ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Downsampling in Prometheus - Jan Fajerski

Presenters Jan Fajerski Source PromCon EU 2025 📉 Level Up Your Prometheus Data: Exploring Downsampling 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever feel like your Prometheus dashboards are drowning in data? You’re not alone. Managing massive time series data can be a real challenge, and today we’re diving into a fascinating potential solution: downsampling. This presentation from Yan at a recent tech conference explored this concept in detail, and it’s seriously worth paying attention to. Let’s break it down. ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Engage Prometheus in Rust Ecosystem - Ruihang Xia

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. 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 5 min