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January 28, 2019

New Features in Prometheus 2.7.0

Prometheus 2.7.0 is now out, following on from 2.6.0 last month with many fixes and improvements.

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January 21, 2019

Optimising Prometheus 2.6.0 Memory Usage with pprof

The 2.6.0 release of Prometheus includes optimisations to reduce the memory taken by indexes and compaction.

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January 14, 2019

Why do resolved notifications contain old values?

It often confuses users as to why resolved notifications don't contain updated annotations values. Let's dig into why.

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January 7, 2019

Optimising startup time of Prometheus 2.6.0 with pprof

The 2.6.0 release of Prometheus includes WAL loading optimisations to make startup faster.

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December 31, 2018

Don’t put the value in alert labels

The labels of an alert are its identity, so you have to be a little careful what you put in there.

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December 24, 2018

New Features in Prometheus 2.6.0

Prometheus 2.6.0 is now out, following on from 2.5.0 last month with many fixes and improvements.

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December 17, 2018

Limiting PromQL resource usage

Prometheus has gained a number of features to limit the impact of expensive PromQL queries.

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December 10, 2018

Checking OpenMetrics output is valid

The Python client can be used to check if a given metrics output is valid OpenMetrics format.

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December 3, 2018

How to check your prometheus.yml is valid

It's nice to check that your configuration is valid before pushing to production.

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November 26, 2018

Unit testing alerts with Prometheus

In the previous post we looked at testing rules. You can also test alerts.

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