Hello!

This is the first issue of the Prometheus Newsletter. The format is simple and short. Interesting information from the world of Prometheus, including talks, videos, and even projects and pull requests related to Prometheus.

Promcon 2023 videos are out

Did you miss the news from Promcon this year? The videos are finally out - Check the complete playlist here!

Memory improvements in Prometheus

Excellent blog post on the work by Bryan Boreham and how it has reduced memory use in Prometheus by half.

All these changes are available from Prometheus 2.47.2 onwards.

How to get SLOs Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, then Right!

A great story from Carson about multiple attempts at getting SLOs right with Prometheus.

Perses - Alternative to Grafana

Have you heard of Perses? It aims to be a standard visualization tool for Prometheus. It is going under heavy development as of now. It focuses on exciting ideas such as Gitops workflows and dashboards as code.

There was also a talk at Promcon on Perses. See the demo here.