Prometheus: case studies over time¶
16 case studies across 12 events, oldest first. Generated by
wiki find "prometheus"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.
Organizations: Comcast, DigitalOcean, Etsy, GitLab, Grafana Labs, HashiCorp, Infobip, Itaú Unibanco, Planet, Splunk, Uber, Weaveworks
2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017 (Berlin)¶
Scaling Organizations Using Kubernetes [I] - Richard Fliam, Comcast VIPER — Comcast¶
Comcast VIPER shares lessons and mistakes from scaling its engineering organization and microservices with Kubernetes.
- ▶ 32:27 … monitoring and alarming as they were talking about today in the prometheus you know becomes much simpler the other part with logging on the …
- ▶ 33:10 … same thing it's it's mostly just six statistical sampling at some point even even with things like Prometheus behind you I will
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2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)¶
Canary Deployment With Prometheus - Andrey Markelov, Infobip — Infobip¶
Infobip shows how it runs canary deployments using Prometheus metrics.
2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)¶
Feeding Realworld Data into Prometheus Microservice Apps on Kubernetes - Burkhard Noltensmeier¶
Shows how real-world data was fed into Prometheus for monitoring microservice applications running on Kubernetes.
How We Used Jaeger and Prometheus to Deliver Lightning-Fast User Queries - Bryan Boreham¶
Federated Prometheus Monitoring at Scale - Nandhakumar Venkatachalam & LungChih Tung¶
2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)¶
Adopting Prometheus the Hard Way - Tim Simmons, DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean¶
2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)¶
M3 and Prometheus, Monitoring at Planet Scale for Everyone - Rob Skillington, Uber — Planet, Uber¶
2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)¶
The Great Cardinality Disasters of Our Time - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks & Chris Marchbanks, Splunk — Weaveworks, Splunk¶
Weaveworks and Splunk engineers recount real Prometheus high-cardinality disasters and lessons learned.
2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual¶
Scaling Prometheus: How We Got Some Thanos Into Cortex - Thor Hansen, HashiCorp & Marco Pracucci — HashiCorp¶
2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021¶
How We are Dealing with Metrics at Scale on GitLab.com - Andrew Newdigate, GitLab — GitLab¶
GitLab explains how it handles metrics at scale on GitLab.com.
Better Scalability & More Isolation? The Cortex “Shuffle Sharding” Story - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs — Grafana Labs¶
Grafana Labs tells how shuffle sharding in Cortex improved scalability and tenant isolation.
2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022¶
DoorDash’s Journey From StatsD To Prometheus With 10 Million Metrics/Second - Emma Wang & Ben Raskin¶
Tamland: How GitLab.Com Uses Long-Term Monitoring Data For Capacity Forecasting. - Andrew Newdigate — GitLab¶
GitLab shows how Tamland uses long-term monitoring data to forecast capacity for GitLab.com.
2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023¶
Show Me the Metrics: How a Huge Bank Does Observability with Multi-Tenancy... - Inacio & Costa — Itaú Unibanco¶
A large bank describes running multi-tenant metrics observability at scale for its own teams.
2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London¶
Pushing the Limits of Prometheus at Etsy - Chris Leavoy, Etsy & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs — Etsy, Grafana Labs¶
2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025¶
Observability at Scale With Monitoring as Code... Vipin GopalaKrishnapillai & Saiabhinay Bommakanti¶
Presents practicing observability at scale through monitoring-as-code, based on the speakers' organization's own approach.
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