After plenty of breathless anticipation, we’re proud to announce the release of the latest major Zabbix version – the new and improved Zabbix 7.0 LTS. This release is the direct result of user feedback and delivers a variety of improvements, including cloud-native Zabbix proxy scalability, website transaction monitoring, improved data…
One of the new features in Zabbix 7.0 LTS is proxy load balancing. As the documentation says: Proxy load balancing allows monitoring hosts by a proxy group with automated distribution of hosts between proxies and high proxy availability. If one proxy from the proxy group goes offline, its hosts will…
We have always made hard promises around stability and breaking changes following the SemVer model. That will remain to be the case. As we want to be bolder in experimentation, we are planning to use feature flags more. Starting with v2.25.0, we have introduced a new section called disabled features…
Have you ever selected the top 10 time series for something, but instead of 10 you got 100? If yes, this one is for you. Let me walk you through what the underlying problem is and how I fixed it. Currently, the topk() query only makes sense as an instant…
Prometheus is the standard for metric monitoring in the cloud native space and beyond. To ensure interoperability, to protect users from suprises, and to enable more parallel innovation, the Prometheus project is introducing the Prometheus Conformance Program with the help of CNCF to certify component compliance and Prometheus compatibility. The…
As announced by CNCF and by ourselves, we're starting a Prometheus conformance program. To give everyone an overview of where the ecosystem is before running tests officially, we wanted to show off the newest addition to our happy little bunch of test suites: The Prometheus Remote Write compliance test suite…
As per Oscar Wilde, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The names "Prometheus" and "Thanos" have recently been taken up by a ransomware group. There's not much we can do about that except to inform you that this is happening. There's not much you can do either, except be…
Today, we're launching the Prometheus Conformance Program with the goal of ensuring interoperability between different projects and vendors in the Prometheus monitoring space. While the legal paperwork still needs to be finalized, we ran tests, and we consider the below our first round of results. As part of this launch…
Bartek Płotka has been a Prometheus Maintainer since 2019 and Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Co-author of the CNCF Thanos project. CNCF Ambassador and tech lead for the CNCF TAG Observability. In his free time, he writes a book titled "Efficient Go" with O'Reilly. Opinions are my own! What…
Prometheus 2.43 has just been released, and it brings some exciting features and enhancements. One of the significant improvements is the stringlabels release, which uses a new data structure for labels. This blog post will answer some frequently asked questions about the 2.43 release and the stringlabels optimizations. What is…