What was monitoring like before Prometheus?

Iris Dyrmishi breaks it down in this clip from the first Thunder episode—a short recap of our full ️ Enlightning session.

Full epidsode here:
youtu.be/1EtqYh5sTl8

No green thumb? No problem.

In celebration of #EarthDay on April 22, here's a simple #IoT project to keep your plants happy and healthy using #Arduino, #Prometheus, and #Grafana Cloud.

Happy gardening!

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/04/18/stem-in-the-garden-how-to-monitor-plants-with-iot-sensors-and-grafana-cloud/?camp=blog&mdm=social

Prometheus Authors released #Prometheus version 3.3.0. https://prometheus.io/download/

I'm excited to launch Thunder — a new series that recaps highlights from ️ Enlightning, my long-form tech show where I learn new tools live, with no slides or demos—just questions, conversation, and a lightboard.

The premiere episode features Iris Dyrmishi teaching me #Prometheus.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/1EtqYh5sTl8

For the 2nd straight year, half of all organizations invested more in #Prometheus & #OpenTelemetry.

This data is based on our 3rd annual Observability Survey, which features insights from 1,200+ respondents in observability.

Have you observed something similar in your team/organization?

See the report: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/?mdm=social

I’m on a side quest of a side quest, hacking vim syntax colourisation for Prometheus metrics output.

One more side quest and I may not find my way back out.

WildFly 36.0.0.Final is now available! Run source-only Jakarta EE and MicroProfile apps with #JBang + #WildFlyGlow; expose #Micrometer metrics via #Prometheus and more. Learn all about it at https://bit.ly/4cvP5rK

Kinda late but yeah Metrics from OTLP support on #Prometheus #KubeCon

So, I've been using Thanos to receive and store my prometheus metrics long term in a self hosted S3 bucket. Thanos also acts as a datasource for my dashboards in Grafana, and provides a Ruler, which evaluates alerting rulers and forwards them to my alertmanager. It's ok. It's certainly got it's downsides, which I can go into later, but I've thinking... what about Mimir?

How do you all feel about Grafana's Mimir (source on GitHub)? It's AGPL and seems to literally be a replacement of Thanos, which is Apache 2.0.

Thanos description from their website:

Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.

Mimir description from their website:

...open source software project that provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics.

Both with work with alloy and prometheus alike. Both require you to configure initially confusing hashrings and replication parameters. Both have a bunch of large companies adopting them, so... now I feel conflicted. Should I try mimir? Poll in reply.

Looking to export #IBM #LSF data to #prometheus? Check out this project https://pypi.org/project/lsf-prometheus-exporter/ #HPC

Prometheus a sculpture from two years ago. Now I'm thinking Elephantman?

"From different angles, no clear head or foot, punctured slits and holes.. Prometheus tends to change its shape. Opening.. and closing…
Together with the constant change in light, during night and day and its geometric perforated shell Prometheus creates a changing play between shadow and light."

https://thuhstudio.etsy.com

#happybirthday @Fassbender_Way #michaelfassbender #actor #ErikLehnsherr #Magneto #XMen #FirstClass #DaysofFuturePast #Apocalypse #darkphoenix #Prometheus #Alien #Covenant #BlackBag #Kneecap #NextGoalWins #TheKiller #TheAgency #300 #BandofBrothers #Hex #Hunger #InglouriousBasterds #JaneEyre #ADangerousMethod #Shame #12YearsaSlave #AssassinsCreed #TheSnowman

#Prometheus 3.0 #KubeConm

Very happy to discover how easy it is to extend `node_exporter` with custom metrics:

Add `--collector.textfile.directory=/some/place` to the daemon's arguments (e.g. via ARGS in `/etc/default/prometheus-node-exporter`), and write `*.prom` files in that directory with your favorite tool, and **boom!**

Text format doc with a very good example: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/

Creating Grafana alerts is something I'm less comfortable with, but I'm starting to get the hang of it…

Prometheus Authors released #Prometheus Node Exporter version 1.9.1. https://prometheus.io/download/