Fashionable cloud-native techniques are extremely dynamic and distributed, which makes it troublesome to observe cloud infrastructure utilizing conventional instruments designed for static environments. This has motivated the event and widespread adoption of devoted observability platforms.
Prometheus is an open-source observability device designed for cloud-native environments. Its robust integration with Kubernetes and pull-based knowledge assortment mannequin have pushed its popularization in DevOps. Nonetheless, a standard problem with Prometheus is that it struggles with giant knowledge volumes and has restricted cost-optimization capabilities. This raises the query of how greatest to deal with Prometheus deployments at giant scale.
Eric Schabell works in DevRel at Chronosphere the place he’s the Director of Neighborhood and Developer. He’s additionally a CNCF Ambassador. Eric joins the present with Kevin Ball to speak about metrics assortment, time collection knowledge, managing Prometheus at scale, tradeoffs between self-hosted vs. managed observability, and extra.
