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: Anomaly Detection - Robust Strategy - Jorge Creixell

Presenters Jorge Creixell Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Level Up Your Anomaly Detection: A Smarter Approach 🤖 Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Jorge, and I’m thrilled to dive into a new strategy for anomaly detection – one that’s designed to be more robust and, frankly, smarter. Let’s explore how we’re moving beyond simple threshold-based alerts to a system that truly understands the behavior of your data. 💡 🧱 The Core Idea: Bands Around Your Metrics The fundamental concept is simple: we create bands around your key metrics. Think of it like a safety net – we’re looking for deviations from the expected behavior. When a metric drifts outside these bands, we flag it as a potential anomaly. 🎯 ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min

Lightning Talk: How to detect and delete unused metrics? - Aliaksandr Valialkin

Presenters Aliaksandr Valialkin Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Taming the Metric Monster: How to Find and Delete Unused Metrics in Prometheus 🤖 Let’s be honest – managing metrics can quickly become a nightmare. You’re collecting data left and right, building complex dashboards, and suddenly, you’re staring at a massive, growing pile of metrics that… well, nobody’s using. 🤯 This is the dreaded “unused metrics” problem, and it’s a surprisingly common one, especially for teams using Prometheus. But don’t worry, it’s a problem with a solution! Today, we’re diving into how to tackle this challenge and reclaim valuable resources. ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 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