Lightning Talk: Correlating Time Series at Scale - Kathrin Paschen

Presenters Kathrin Paschen Source PromCon EU 2025 Unlocking Hidden Connections: A Deep Dive into Time Series Correlation 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever felt like you’re drowning in a sea of time series data, desperately searching for meaningful insights? You’re not alone. This presentation tackled a surprisingly complex challenge – efficiently identifying correlations within massive time series datasets – and the results are genuinely fascinating. Let’s break down the key takeaways and explore how this research could revolutionize your monitoring and observability strategies. 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Lightning Talk: How We Validate User Initiated Config Changes in Promet... G. Michalec & I. Skorjanc

Presenters Gregorz Michalec Ivona Skorjanc Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Prometheus Observability with Automated PR Checks 🚀💡 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s dive into a super practical solution for ensuring best practices are followed when users are modifying your Prometheus configurations. This isn’t a polished presentation – it’s a lightning talk born from a lunch-time brainstorm, but the core ideas are incredibly valuable. 🤖 The Problem: Manual Validation is a Bottleneck 🧱 Traditionally, when users (like those on your platform observability team) create new script targets or alerting rules in Prometheus repositories, the validation process was entirely manual. 🧑‍💻 This meant a real operator had to manually review every pull request, checking for potential issues. The challenge? This was: ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

Lightning Talk: OTel Demo: Showcasing Prometheus and improving its OTel support - Cyrille Le Clerc

Presenters Cyrille Le Clerc Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding the Future of Observability: The Rise of OpenTelemetry & Prometheus 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Cyrille from Graphana Labs just dropped some seriously insightful knowledge about the evolving landscape of observability, and we’re here to break it down for you. Let’s dive into how OpenTelemetry is shaking things up, particularly its relationship with Prometheus – and why it’s a game-changer for anyone serious about monitoring and tracing. 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

Debugging the Pipeline: Observability for Your Observability with OTel + Prometheus - Israel Blancas

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. 💀 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 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