Building a Powerful Monitoring Platform with Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana

PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, took place in Berlin 28-29 September 2023, and we’re here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem, including the pivotal decision on Prometheus 3.0! Brace yourselves for some exciting announcements! We also delved into the latest addition to the ecosystem, Perses project, which promises to revolutionize the world of dashboard visualization and monitoring. This new open source project, now part of the Linux Foundation, aims to become the GitOps-friendly standard dashboard visualization tool for Prometheus and other data sources. On this episode I hosted Augustin Husson, Prometheus maintainer and the creator of the Perses project, at the heels of his PromCon announcement of the Perses release. Augustin is also principal engineer at Amadeus, a technology vendor for travel agencies. Augustin joined Amadeus to create a new internal monitoring system based on Prometheus, and he will also share his end-user journey and insights.

The episode was live-streamed on 4 October 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzQZagfgIKk

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Show Notes:

00:00 - show, episode and guest intro

05:46 - OpenTelemetry support in Prometheus

11:02 - Green IT use case with Prometheus

14:12 - scrape sharding support in Prometheus operator 

19:33 - scaling out Alerts and alert sharding

24:45 - Windows Exporter is released

27:50 - revamping the Prometheus UI with React  

30:48 - Prometheus 3.0 and DevDay updates

41:04 - Perses project origins at Amadeus 

47:10 - Perses joining open source foundation

49:58 - embedding Perses in Red Hat OpenShift and in Chronosphere 

54:05 - Perses current release 

59:32 - Perses roadmap

1:03:11 - Perses joining the Linux Foundation and the CNCF

1:07:47 - how to get involved in Perses

1:10:03 - episode outro

Resources:

Perses on GitHub: https://github.com/perses/perses The CoreDash Project: https://github.com/coredashio/community Perses overview talk at PromCon 2023: https://promcon.io/2023-berlin/talks/... Prometheus support for OpenTelemetry Metrics in OTLP: https://horovits.medium.com/83f85878e46a

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Dotan Horovits

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Augustin Husson =============== Twitter: https://twitter.com/nexucis LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/augustin-husson-69a050a1 Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@nexucis