DevOps

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 Gregorz Michalec Ivona Skorjanc Source PromCon EU 2025 Level Up Your Prometheus Observability with Automated PR Checks 🚀💡 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s dive into a super practical solution for ensuring best practices are followed when users are modifying your Prometheus configurations. This isn’t a polished presentation – it’s a lightning talk born from a lunch-time brainstorm, but the core ideas are incredibly valuable. 🤖 The Problem: Manual Validation is a Bottleneck 🧱 Traditionally, when users (like those on your platform observability team) create new script targets or alerting rules in Prometheus repositories, the validation process was entirely manual. 🧑‍💻 This meant a real operator had to manually review every pull request, checking for potential issues. The challenge? This was: ...

Presenters Pavel Strobl Source PromCon EU 2025 🚀 Embrace the “Why Not?” Mindset: Building Exporters for Everything 🤖 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s talk about something incredibly rewarding – building exporters. This wasn’t a deeply technical presentation, but rather a passionate plea to observe, experiment, and create. The speaker’s core message? Don’t get bogged down in “why” – ask “why not?” Instead, focus on what you enjoy, and then find ways to expose metrics from those passions. 💡 ...

Presenters Cyrille Le Clerc Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding the Future of Observability: The Rise of OpenTelemetry & Prometheus 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Cyrille from Graphana Labs just dropped some seriously insightful knowledge about the evolving landscape of observability, and we’re here to break it down for you. Let’s dive into how OpenTelemetry is shaking things up, particularly its relationship with Prometheus – and why it’s a game-changer for anyone serious about monitoring and tracing. 💡 ...

Presenters Bryan Boreham Source PromCon EU 2025 Decoding the Prometheus Puzzle: A Community-Powered Bug Scrub 🚀 Let’s be honest, diving into the world of monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus can feel a little daunting. It’s powerful, complex, and constantly evolving. But what if I told you there’s a secret weapon – a dedicated community effort – that’s quietly working behind the scenes to make your experience smoother? Today, we’re uncovering the “Promeus Buck Scrub,” a fascinating initiative that’s transforming how Prometheus issues and pull requests are handled. 💡 ...