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

Counting What You Care About in Your Security Data Pipeline - Attila Szakács

Presenters Attila Szakács Source PromCon EU 2025 Beyond Syslog: Unlock True Observability with Dynamic Logging Metrics 🚀💡 Let’s be honest – logging has come a long way. For decades, Syslog was the king, a reliable workhorse for transporting log data. But as our systems grew more complex, relying solely on Syslog’s basic metrics felt… limiting. It was like trying to understand a city’s traffic flow by only counting the number of cars passing a single point – you missed the bigger picture. 🗺️ ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

From Logs to Metrics: OpenSearch's Prometheus support with Agentic AI and... A. Jadhav, K. Hounslow

Presenters Anirudha Jadhav Kyle Hounslow Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Agentic AI: Making Open Search Observability Accessible to All 🤖 Hey everyone! 👋 Kyle here from AWS, and I’m incredibly excited to dive into a project that’s fundamentally changing how we think about observability – specifically, within the vibrant Open Search ecosystem. We’re talking about Unleashing Agentic AI, and it’s poised to make complex data analysis accessible to users of all skill levels. Let’s explore how we’re tackling the challenges of PromQL complexity and building a future where data insights are truly democratized. ...

December 19, 2025 · 4 min

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