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/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠ 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/ Socials: Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon Julius Volz ========= Twitter: https://twitter.com/juliusvolz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julius-volz/ Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@juliusvolz