Kubernetes

Prometheus is the second-oldest project in the CNCF and the default answer for metrics in Kubernetes. Which means most people meet it already running, configured by someone who has since left, and never get a chance to ask how the thing works. This is the maintainer track session for people in that position. We start from the beginning for anyone who has only ever touched Prometheus through a Grafana panel: what it scrapes, what it keeps, and what the query engine is actually doing while your dashboard spins. Then we go under the covers into the storage layer, the write path, and the places the memory tends to go. ...

The CNCF Incubated Thanos project with the large open-source community continues to push boundaries regarding observability and monitoring using Prometheus-based metrics. Together with the Prometheus community, it improves the metric story for Kubernetes clusters and beyond. Things like improved performance, better scalability, debuggability, security, metrics backfilling and query QoS is only the tip of the iceberg. As we know, observability nowadays comes in many flavours. Bunching them together is not a trivial side, given many shapes and collection points. Aside from metrics, we have logs, traces or even continuous profiling. In this talk, Kemal and Bartek, Thanos maintainers, after a quick overview of Thanos, will explain how Thanos can be integrated with those non-metric observability signals. The audience will learn an example, end-to-end ways to correlate multiple observability backends with Thanos for enhanced observability and monitoring experience. ...

Thanos is an open-source, CNCF’s Incubated project that horizontally scales Prometheus to create a global-scale highly available monitoring system. It extends Prometheus in a few simple steps and it is already used in production by hundreds of companies that aim for high multi-cloud scale for metrics while keeping low maintenance cost. During this talk, core Thanos (and Prometheus) maintainers, will briefly introduce basic ideas behind Thanos and deployment models and use cases. After that, to satisfy more experienced users, they will explain more advanced concepts, tips for running on the scale, and the latest shiny usability improvements. Thanks to the growing community there is much to talk about! ...