Prometheus 3.0 Unveiled: PromCon Highlights with Julius Volz - OpenObservability Talks S5E04

PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, is back in Berlin, and we’re here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem. And this year we’ve got some major news: Prometheus’s long-awaited major release, v3.0! 

Join us to hear all about the revamped user interface, about Remote Write 2.0, and about Prometheus’ goal to become the default backend for storing OpenTelemetry metrics, featuring native OTel support, and much more. We’ll cover these and more highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem.

Our guest is no other than Julius Volz, creator of Prometheus, and founder of the PromCon conference. Julius created the Prometheus monitoring at SoundCloud and led the project through open source and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community, and helps companies use and adapt Prometheus through his company PromLabs. Before that, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, where he gained experience monitoring at hyperscale.

The episode was live-streamed on 4 September 2024 and the video is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUCU-78RD4

Check out the episode recap: https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87/

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Show Notes:

00:00 - episode and guest intro

01:56 - Prometheus origins

07:23 - Kubernetes synergy

09:34 - Origins of PromCon and this year’s event

11:44 - The idea for Prometheus 3.0

13:26 - new UI for Prometheus

20:42 - Beyond Prometheus UI into the broader UI/UX vision

23:07 - OpenTelemetry support and compatibility

37:26 - Native histograms

43:14 - Remote Write 2.0

46:53 - New governance model

48:49 - OpenMetrics is archived, merged into Prometheus

53:34 - Perses joins the CNCF sandbox

57:15 - The landscape of long-term storage for Prometheus

59:13 - Updates in Thanos project

01:00:34 - the growth of Prometheus-semi-compatible solutions

01:04:09 - Kubernets 1.31 is released

Resources:

PromCon recap: https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87/

PromCon: https://promcon.io/2024-berlin/

Prometheus now supports OpenTelemetry: https://horovits.medium.com/83f85878e46a

OpenMetrics archived, merged into Prometheus: https://horovits.medium.com/d555598d2d04

Prometheus 3.0-Beta release: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.0

Prometheus 3.0-Beta release blog: https://prometheus.io/blog/2024/09/11/prometheus-3-beta/

Perses project introduction: https://horovits.medium.com/f05b5324d7da

Last roundup of Prometheus updates: https://horovits.medium.com/fbede9b5cc9

Last PromCon (2023) recap:

https://logz.io/blog/promcon-prometheus-ecosystem-updates/

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