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Prometheus co-founder Julius Volz offers insights into how using OpenTelemetry with Prometheus still poses problems and what needs to be done to address those issues. By B. Cameron Gain

🚀 Observability Matters! This chart perfectly highlights how the observability landscape is evolving. Grafana, Datadog, Sentry, and Prometheus continue to dominate, but what’s interesting is how open-source stacks like ELK, Loki, and OpenTelemetry are gaining more traction every year. With modern distributed systems, observability isn’t just about monitoring — it’s about correlating metrics, logs, and traces to get full visibility across environments. 👉 Whether it’s troubleshooting, performance tuning, or ensuring reliability, the right observability stack makes all the difference. 💬 What tools does your team rely on most for observability? Let’s discuss what’s working best in your setup 👇 #DevOps #Observability #Grafana #Prometheus #CloudMonitoring #SRE #Monitoring #OpenTelemetry

Fixes Required for Prometheus’ OpenTelemetry Integration. Prometheus co-founder offers insights into how using OpenTelemetry with Prometheus still poses problems and what needs to be done to address those issues.

Meet formae 🚀 Say goodbye to the stale and brittle state files of old, and say hello to formae's state of reality. Formae, the new open-source IaC platform from Platform Engineering Labs, promises to flip the script on infrastructure management by building on the *real* environment, not some pie-in-the-sky plan. 🟠 **Automatic Discovery and Codification:** Your resources are automatically mapped across your cloud estate—yes, all of them—and turned into neat, declarative code. Drift? Not anymore. 🟠 **Code-First Experience:** Work your infrastructure through "formas." Single resources or whole stacks—you call the shots. 🟠 **Minimal Blast Radius Changes:** Updates are precise and risk-averse. Infrastructure as patchwork, not crash-test! 🟠 **No State Management Fuss:** Forget brittle state files! Formae syncs what's written in code with what's happening live, continuously. Your reality, codified. 🟠 **Schema-Safe, Agent-Based:** Forms peace, detachment, and reduces errors. Infrastructure management that’s finally Zen. 🟠 **Extensible and Open:** Craft your plugins and enterprise extensions! Shared creativity under the FSL opensource license. With formae, engineers aren’t tied down by obsolete systems. Even Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, and ClickOps can coexist. Get the full IaC experience where hidden drift is history and reliability is name of the game. Does formae truly mark the future of infrastructure management, or is it just another tool in the IaC shed? 🤔 #OpenSource #IaC #Infrastructure #Automation #Innovation 🔗https://lnkd.in/dHcnk8cg 👉 Post of the day: https://lnkd.in/dACBEQnZ 👈

✨ Every system tells a story, you just need the right tools to listen! 🔎 That’s what led me to explore Prometheus, Grafana, and Docker in action. In a constantly evolving world, systems are becoming increasingly complex, and understanding their performance in real time is more essential than ever. Aiming to explore widely used and relevant technologies, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀, 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗮, and 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿, I came up with the idea for a project I called “𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿”. I challenged myself to develop a Windows system performance monitor capable of collecting and visualizing key metrics for resource analysis and optimization, while also adding alert rules that trigger notifications whenever an issue occurs. 🔹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 → An open-source tool for collecting, storing, and querying time-series metrics, widely used for system and application monitoring in production environments. 🔹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗮 → A powerful visualization platform that transforms raw data into actionable insights through interactive dashboards. 🔹 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 → A containerization technology that simplifies service deployment and management, ensuring portability and consistent execution across environments. What started as curiosity about these tools became a concrete example of how modern technologies can improve system management and operations. 🔗 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯: https://lnkd.in/dF8aBJ4A … but there is still so much more to explore! 🚀 #𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 #𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗮 #𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 #𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 #𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 

Katakate is a powerful open-source project that enables the creation of lightweight, secure VM sandboxes for running untrusted code at scale. By combining Kubernetes, Kata Containers, and Firecracker, it offers a robust solution for environments where security and isolation are critical. Whether you're managing CI/CD pipelines, building AI agents, or exploring new execution models, Katakate provides the tools to do so safely and efficiently. Learn more about how this project can enhance your infrastructure and contribute to the growing ecosystem of secure, scalable computing solutions. Learn more.

🚀 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 — 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 🚀 Ever wondered how top tech teams keep their systems healthy, fast, and reliable — even at scale? 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗲: 🔹 Prometheus — Collects real-time metrics (CPU, memory, latency) 🔹 Loki — Captures and links logs to your metrics 🔹 Tempo — Traces requests across microservices 🔹 Alertmanager — Instantly notifies teams when things break 🔹 Grafana — The single pane of glass that brings it all together When combined, they create a full 360° visibility system — so you can detect, debug, and deliver faster. This is what modern observability looks like. When combined, these tools give you full visibility into your systems from performance spikes to production incidents empowering teams to act before customers notice. #DevOps #Observability #Grafana #Prometheus #Kubernetes #CloudComputing #Monitoring #InfrastructureAsCode #SRE #DevOpsCommunity

🚀 Big news for the observability world — Cortex v1.20.0 is here! This major release comes packed with over 140 features, improvements, and bug fixes 🎉 — a massive leap forward for teams running scalable, multi-tenant metrics systems. From performance boosts to stability improvements, this release pushes Cortex even closer to being the go-to choice for long-term Prometheus storage. 📈 We’ve summarized all the highlights for you here 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gqn4YrY6 At Relnx, we make it effortless to track updates from tools like Cortex, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and Kustomize — so you never miss what’s new and why it matters. 💡 Stay ahead of change. Stay reliable. ⚡ #Cortex #Prometheus #Observability #OpenTelemetry #DevOps #SRE #Relnx #CloudNative #Monitoring #OpenSource

🚀 Exploring Prometheus & Grafana: My Journey into Monitoring and Observability Over the past few days, I’ve been diving deep into Prometheus and Grafana, two of the most powerful tools in modern infrastructure monitoring. 🧠 What I’ve learned so far: Prometheus helps collect and store time-series metrics efficiently — perfect for monitoring system and container performance. Grafana brings those metrics to life through dashboards, alerts, and beautiful visualizations. Together, they form a robust observability stack that gives real-time visibility into servers, Docker containers, and services. ⚙️ What I built: A complete monitoring setup using Docker Compose, integrating Prometheus with exporters like Node Exporter, cAdvisor, and Blackbox Exporter. Custom Grafana dashboards for system metrics, container health, and uptime probes. Alerting mechanisms to detect anomalies early. 🎯 Key takeaway: Monitoring isn’t just about watching systems — it’s about understanding how they behave and ensuring reliability at scale. Prometheus + Grafana make that possible in an elegant, open-source way. Next up: integrating this with Alertmanager and exploring Prometheus federation for multi-node setups. #DevOps #Monitoring #Prometheus #Grafana #Observability #Docker #CloudNative

More Omdia on Location from #KubeCon 2025 in Atlanta this week: AI workloads are the catalyst that makes security a mandatory part of the developer platform. Especially agentic AI workflows put so much complexity pressure on the enterprise technology portfolio that the app guys, the security guys, and the ops guys need a shared platform that gives them the role-specific visibility they need to get their job done collaboratively. Melinda Marks and I discuss what we've seen this week at KubeCon and why visibility in AI is crucial for everyone. Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Informa TechTarget #Kubernetes #CloudSec #AppSec #CloudNative #Agentic #AI #DevOps #Platform https://lnkd.in/g6iV-GYC