Prometheus 2.7.0 is now out, following on from 2.6.0 last month with many fixes and improvements.
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It often confuses users as to why resolved notifications don't contain updated annotations values. Let's dig into why.
The 2.6.0 release of Prometheus includes WAL loading optimisations to make startup faster.
The labels of an alert are its identity, so you have to be a little careful what you put in there.
Prometheus has gained a number of features to limit the impact of expensive PromQL queries.
The Python client can be used to check if a given metrics output is valid OpenMetrics format.
It's nice to check that your configuration is valid before pushing to production.
In the previous post we looked at testing rules. You can also test alerts.