SAAFE - A prioritized alerting model to troubleshoot your incidents - Jorge Creixell, Manoj Acharya

Presenters Jorge Creixell Manoj Acharya Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Level Up Your Troubleshooting: Introducing the Assertion Framework 💡 Hey everyone! I’m Jorge from Grafana Labs, and I’m thrilled to share a game-changing approach to observability – one designed to cut through the alert chaos and deliver real insights. We’ve been working on this alongside Manoj (who’s enjoying some family time!), and we believe it’s a significant step forward in how we approach troubleshooting. Let’s dive in! ...

December 19, 2025 · 5 min

UX Research Report: Prometheus and OTel's Resource Attributes. - Victoria Nduka, Andrejj Kiripolský

Presenters Victoria Nduka Andrej Kiripolský Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Monitoring: A Deep Dive into Prometheus & Resource Attributes 🚀 Let’s be honest, monitoring can feel like navigating a complex maze. You’re drowning in metrics, trying to pinpoint the root cause of an issue, and often wrestling with convoluted queries. But what if there was a simpler, more intuitive way to understand where your systems are struggling? That’s the core of a fascinating project underway within the Prometheus and OpenTelemetry communities – and it’s a game-changer for anyone serious about observability. 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Lightning Talk: Improved Prometheus filtering in Grafana - Victor Marin

Presenters Victor Marin Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Grafana Dashboards: A Deep Dive into New Filtering Features 🚀 Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Victor, a software engineer at Grafana Labs, and I’m thrilled to share some exciting updates we’ve been working on – specifically, a major overhaul of how you filter data within Grafana using Prometheus. We’ve focused on making your dashboards cleaner, more intuitive, and incredibly powerful. Let’s dive in! 💡 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Lightning Talk: Instant Vectors ≠ Scalars - How it bit me - Julius Rickerti

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. 🚀 ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

Lightning Talk: Managing Silences - Provisioning Silences into Alertmanager - Théo Brigitte

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. ✨ ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min