Prometheus is well-known in the metrics area. While it stays a simple to operate server, it is getting more and more capabilities over time. Let’s have a look at the latest and greatest changes happening in the Prometheus server and in the ecosystem. Come and learn how we work on improving observability for everyone.

1. Julien Pivotto
@roidelapluie
Prometheus in 2021 and beyond
June 17 2021

2. • Open Source monitoring solution
• Graduated CNCF Project
• Born in 2012, publicly announced in 2015
Prometheus

3. • A community
• An ecosystem
• A server and many other components
What Prometheus means

4. • Open Source
• Pull-based Monitoring
• Powerful query language
• Optimized TSDB
The Prometheus server

5. • Whitebox + Blackbox monitoring
• Alerting
• Labelled time series
• Works over HTTP
Monitoring with Prometheus

6. Let's look at changes in three di erent areas:
• Community
• Software
• Ecosystem
What's new?

7. Community

8. Prometheus is more open than ever.
Public and recorded meetings:
• working groups
• developer summits
• bug triage
Prometheus Community

9. • Weekly contributor o ce hours
• Recorded meetings
• Multiple timezones
• Discuss, unblock, review
• Looking to participate in programs:
• LFX Mentorship
• Google Summer of Code
Mentorship

10. https://prometheus.io/community
Join the community

11. Software

12. • Server side TLS / Basic authentication
• Examplars
• Back lling
• Remote Write receiver
Prometheus

13. • Eureka
• Hetzner
• Docker
• Docker Swarm
• DigitalOcean
• AWS Lightsail
• Scaleway
Service Discovery

14. • @ modi er
• New functions (last_over_time)
• Negative o set
PromQL

15. • React UI
• Dark theme
• Advanced editor
UI

16. • Time Based Muting
• Negative matchers
Alertmanager

17. Ecosystem

18. Reusable code to be used by exporters.
https://github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit
Exporter Toolkit

19. More and more exporter and repos
https://github.com/prometheus-community
Prometheus-Community

20. What is coming

21. Community

22. • Building a team to improve and rework documentation
• Great way to get involved
• Make it even easier to start with Prometheus
Documentation Working Group

23. Extend the exporter toolkit with common look and feel
Exporter Toolkit

24. Software

25. • Light version of Prometheus
• Scrapes and Remote Write
• "Prometheus on the edge"
Prometheus Agent

26. • Kuma
• Linode
• Tencent
• Generic HTTP SD
New Service discoveries

27. Ecosystem

28. • Weekly meetings OpenTelemetry/Prometheus
• Working together, ensuring compatibility
Working with OpenTelemetry

29. • Many projects and service embrace Prometheus/ PromQL
• Compliance program backed by CNCF
• Tests for Remote Write & PromQL available
Compliance

30. Conclusion

31. • Prometheus is moving fast
• More than even listening and open
• Exiting new exploratory areas
• Meeting more users' needs
Conclusion

32. Julien Pivotto
@roidelapluie
roidelapluie@inuits.eu
Essensteenweg 31
2930 Brasschaat
Belgium
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