Architecture and Design

Presenters Arve Knudsen Owen Williams Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Monitoring: Prometheus Gets a Serious OpenTelemetry Boost 🚀 Monitoring your applications and infrastructure has just gotten a whole lot smarter – and more integrated. In this post, we’re diving deep into the latest developments in Prometheus, thanks to a fantastic presentation from Graphana Labs featuring Arve Knudsen and Owen Williams. They’ve been hard at work bridging the gap between Prometheus and the OpenTelemetry standard, and the results are seriously impressive. Let’s break down what’s new and what’s on the horizon. 💡 ...

Presenters Julius Rickerti Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding the Mystery: Instant Vectors and Victoria Metrics 🕵️‍♀️ Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever encountered a puzzling anomaly in your monitoring data? Today, we’re diving into a fascinating – and slightly frustrating – experience shared by Julius, a Victoria Metrics user, that highlights a quirky behavior and a crucial lesson about how metrics are processed. Let’s unpack this and see what we can learn. 🚀 ...

Presenters Théo Brigitte Source PromCon EU 2025 Silencing the Noise: Automating Alert Management with a Git-Based Operator 🚀 Let’s be honest – managing alerts across a sprawling Kubernetes infrastructure can feel like herding cats. 😼 One rogue deployment, a misconfigured metric, and suddenly everyone is getting paged. 🚨 At Giants Forum, we faced this challenge head-on, and the solution involved a surprisingly elegant blend of Git, Kubernetes, and a little bit of operator magic. ✨ ...

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 Nicolas Takashi Arthur Sens Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding Telemetry: Building Schemas for a Data-Driven World 🚀 Let’s be honest, the world of observability and telemetry can feel… overwhelming. A deluge of metrics, logs, and spans – where do you even start when trying to understand what’s happening in your systems? This presentation tackled a surprisingly elegant solution: engineering telemetry like you engineer a pipeline, using schemas to unlock clarity and drive adoption. 💡 ...