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October 19, 2020

New Features in Prometheus 2.22.0

Prometheus 2.22.0 is now out, following on from 2.21.0 with many fixes and improvements.

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October 12, 2020

Negative lookahead assertions in PromQL selectors

RE2 doesn't support lookahead, but that doesn't mean you can't do it in another way.

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October 5, 2020

How long can Prometheus retention be?

Data is smaller and disks are bigger than you'd think.

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September 28, 2020

Pre-populated silence URLs

You don't have to fill in all the silence details yourself.

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September 21, 2020

Don’t Try to Swim Upstream

Have you ever felt that a piece of software just isn't doing what you need?

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September 14, 2020

New Features in Prometheus 2.21.0

Prometheus 2.21.0 is now out, following on from 2.20.0 with many fixes and improvements.

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September 7, 2020

Why does Prometheus use so much RAM?

Users are sometimes surprised that Prometheus uses RAM, let's look at that.

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August 31, 2020

CPU scheduling metrics from the node exporter

Linux provides scheduling metrics in /proc/schedstat, which the node exporter uses.

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August 24, 2020

Failing a scrape with the Prometheus Go client

As previously mentioned partial failure is hard to deal with.

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August 17, 2020

CPU frequency scaling metrics from the node exporter

Modern CPUs don't run at one constant frequency.

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