Feb 16
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From a SoundCloud side project to a global standard, Prometheus has come a long way — and 3.0 marks a major new chapter. In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie sit down with: - Julius Volz – Co-creator of Prometheus; Founder of PromLabs and PromCon - Richi “RichiH” Hartmann – Prometheus maintainer; Senior Developer Programs Director, Grafana Labs They dive into: - How Prometheus started as a Borgmon-inspired hobby project at SoundCloud - Why Prometheus stuck with a text-based exposition format (and why it still matters) - What’s new in Prometheus 3.0: performance gains, revamped UI, UTF-8 support, and more - Native histograms — and why Tom says it’s like going from standard definition to high-definition TV - OpenTelemetry interoperability, governance changes, and what might be coming in Prometheus 4.0 Timestamps: 0:00 – Welcome to Big Tent S3E2 & introducing Prometheus 3.0 0:38 – Meet the guests 1:07 – The Prometheus origin story: SoundCloud, Borgmon & broken monitoring 5:26 – Why Prometheus chose a text-based format (and why it still matters) 10:31 – Legacy monitoring vs cloud-native observability 14:35 – Why Prometheus 2.x lasted seven years 17:38 – Prometheus 3.0 performance gains 20:22 – Prometheus 3.0 UI updates, PromLens & Remote Write 2.0 22:03 – UTF-8 support & interoperability with OpenTelemetry 30:23 – Native histograms explained 34:00 – Native histograms & “HD observability” in production 40:22 – Breaking changes, upgrades & what to watch out for 42:56 – What’s next: governance changes, Prometheus 4.0 & the future 51:59 – Closing thoughts: Prometheus still has plenty of muscle Links/resources: Learn more about Grafana's Big Tent: https://bigtent.fm/ Have a question? Ask Grot, your AI helper: https://grafana.com/grot/ Reach out in our community forums: https://gra.fan/communityyf --- Thanks for watching! 👍 Was this video helpful? Like and subscribe to our channel for more videos. Connect with Grafana Labs: X: (https://www.twitter.com/grafana) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/) Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/grafana) #Grafana #Observability #BigTent