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Introducing the UX Research Working Group
The Prometheus team has established a new UX Research Working Group to proactively address user experience pain points identified through recent research – ranging from onboarding …
Uncached I/O in Prometheus
Prometheus is introducing a feature called “use-uncached-io” to reduce its page cache footprint and improve memory predictability, particularly during disk compaction writes. By ut…
Introducing the UX Research Working Group
The Prometheus team has established a new UX Research Working Group to proactively address user experience pain points identified through recent research – ranging from onboarding …
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 …
Introducing the Experimental info() Function
Prometheus 3.0 introduces the experimental `info()` function to simplify enriching metrics with metadata labels from "info" metrics (like those from OpenTelemetry). Traditionally, …
Visualizing Target Relabeling Rules in Prometheus 3.8.0
Prometheus 3.8.0 introduces a new relabeling visualizer in its web UI to simplify debugging of target relabeling rules. This tool displays a step-by-step breakdown of how each rule…
How Non-Developers Can Contribute to Prometheus
This article highlights the challenges non-developers face when contributing to open-source projects like Prometheus, including feeling intimidated, lacking clear contribution aven…
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…
YACE is joining Prometheus Community
Yet Another Cloudwatch Exporter (YACE) has officially joined the Prometheus community, aiming to increase accessibility and encourage wider contribution. Originally created by an e…
Announcing Prometheus 3.0
Prometheus 3.0, the first major release in 7 years, is now available and introduces a redesigned UI, enhanced remote write capabilities (Remote Write 2.0), and full UTF-8 support f…
Prometheus 3.0 Beta Released
Prometheus 3.0-beta has been released, focusing on backwards compatibility with numerous improvements and new features like a completely redesigned UI and enhanced Remote Write fun…