How Should Prometheus Handle OpenTelemetry Resource Attributes? – A UX Research Report
On May 29th, 2025, I wrapped up my mentorship with Prometheus through the Linux Foundation Mentorship Program. My project focused on understanding how Prometheus handles OpenTelemetry resource attributes and how that experience could be improved for…
The New Stack: “Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Just Couldn’t Get Along”
Until recently, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry had compatibility issues. However, Prometheus now integrates well with OpenTelemetry and remains a core part of the ecosystem.
Prometheus Labels: Understanding and Best Practices
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Keval Bhogayata, covering all the best practices for prometheus labels. In observability, Prometheus is a well-known tool amongst SREs and engineers alike. What makes Prometheus so effective…
Demo an Automated Canary Deployment on Kubernetes with Argo Rollouts, Istio, and Prometheus
Building stuff is fun! Let’s use Argo Rollouts, Istio, and Prometheus to automate a canary deployment on Kubernetes! The application we’ll run is the Argo Rollouts Demo Application which does a great job of visualizing how…
How to ace the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam
Community post originally published on Medium by Giorgi Keratishvili Introduction If you have worked on Kubernetes production systems at any time during the last 10 years and needed to check your pods or application uptime, resource consumption, HTTP error rates,…
Prometheus 3.0 unveiled: highlights from PromCon Europe 2024
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador TL;DR Key updates: PromCon Europe 2024 just wrapped up in Berlin, and this year’s edition was a big one. Not just because the Prometheus community…
OpenMetrics is archived, merged into Prometheus
Community post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits OpenMetrics is finally back where it has always belonged — Prometheus format Last month the OpenMetrics project was officially archived and folded into Prometheus. That’s the end of an…
Monitor Cloudflare workers using Prometheus Exporter
Member post originally published on Last9’s blog by Aniket Rao Here’s a detailed blog post on monitoring Cloudflare Workers using Prometheus Exporter. We discuss the data flow of how Prometheus Cloudflare Exporter fetches metrics from your Cloudflare account; then, by…