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What's new in the Prometheus ecosystem? - OpenObservability Talks S3E07

So much has been going on with the Prometheus project and its ecosystem, that it’s time to have a proper catch up. And there’s no better person to walk us through it than Julien Pivotto, who debriefed the community last month at PromCon.

Julien Pivotto is a maintainer of Prometheus, the open source monitoring and alerting solution. He is the co-founder of the company O11y, that provides premium support for open source observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos and Grafana.

The episode was live-streamed on 19 December 2022 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vui4EgveUxg

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Show Notes:

  • Prometheus is 10 years old
  • Prometheus mission statement and directions
  • New Agent Mode for work with external backends
  • Service Discovery ecosystem, plugins and updates
  • Time series database basics and updates
  • New support for native histograms
  • Examplars in Prometheus to correlate metrics to traces
  • PromQL query language updates
  • PromLens contribution to Prometheus
  • Prometheus UI updates
  • Visualization options: Grafana and Perses 
  • Alertmanager updates
  • Windows exporter, MySQL and other new exporters
  • Long term support for Prometheus project
  • Thanos, Cortex, Mimir - ecosystem update
  • Prometheus community  

Resources:

  • PromCon EU 2022 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wlza5jrS-U
  • Prometheus GitHub: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
  • Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You: https://horovits.medium.com/ca477e80589e

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