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: 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: 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

Lightning Talk: PHP and Prometheus For better Metrics - Syed Usman Ahmad

Presenters Syed Usman Ahmad Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Level Up Your PHP Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana 📊 Hey everyone! 👋 Usman from Grafana Labs here, and I’m thrilled to share some insights on how you can dramatically improve the observability of your PHP applications – especially when running them in complex environments like Kubernetes. Let’s dive in! 💡 The PHP Story: From Basics to Kubernetes 🐳 I’ve been working with PHP for 15 years – a long time in this industry! 🕰️ It started with simple scripts, evolved with technologies like Docker, and now finds itself nestled within the powerful orchestration of Kubernetes. PHP’s journey is fascinating, and it highlights a crucial point: as your applications grow, so does the need for robust monitoring. It’s easy to get lost in the complexity, but that’s where tools like Prometheus and Grafana come in. ...

December 19, 2025 · 3 min