Prometheus

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 Björn “Beorn” Rabenstein Source PromCon EU 2025 Rate Smoothing & Anchoring: A Deep Dive into Prometheus Rate Function Evolution 🚀 Hey everyone! 👋 Let’s talk about something that’s been buzzing in the monitoring world: the Prometheus rate function. It’s a fundamental piece of the puzzle for calculating rates from time series data, but it’s also a surprisingly complex and often misunderstood component. Today, we’re going to break down the recent changes and explore the new approaches of “anchored” and “smooth” rates – and why they matter for your observability stack. ...

Presenters Krajo Krajcsovits Source PromCon EU 2025 🎉 Graphan Native Histograms: Officially Stable – A Huge Win for Monitoring! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Let’s talk about a massive step forward in monitoring – Graphan’s native histograms are finally stable! I’ve been following this journey closely, and I’m genuinely excited about the improvements and the collaborative effort that brought us here. Let’s dive in and unpack what this means for you. ...