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Modernizing Prometheus: Native Storage for Composite Types

The Prometheus team is working on modernizing its storage system by moving from a “classic” model of storing composite metrics (like histograms) as multiple individual time series …

PromCon is Only One Month Away; See You in Person or via Live Stream!

PromCon EU 2025, the 10th annual conference for the Prometheus monitoring ecosystem, is happening October 21-22 in Munich (and via livestream!). The event features a packed schedul…

Introducing Prometheus Agent Mode, an Efficient and Cloud-Native Way for Metric Forwarding

The article introduces "Prometheus Agent Mode," a new operational mode built directly into the Prometheus binary designed to optimize metric forwarding. This mode streamlines scrap…

Remote Read Meets Streaming

Prometheus 2.13.0 introduces a streamed version of the Remote Read API, addressing significant memory usage issues with the previous implementation. The new API utilizes a chunked,…