Name: Pushing the Limits of Prometheus at Etsy - Chris Leavoy, Etsy & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs
Start: 2025-04-03T11:45:00+0100
End: 2025-04-03T12:15:00+0100

In-person
1-4 April 2025
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Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

A deep dive into the journey of pushing Prometheus beyond its performance limits. This talk offers an insider's perspective on scaling a single Prometheus instance using a powerhouse 128-core machine with 4TB of RAM, and processing a staggering 500 million metrics at its peak. It’s a story packed with lessons, insights, and actionable takeaways from operating one of the industry's largest Prometheus servers.

The talk will go through:
- Breaking Boundaries: Explore the challenges encountered in Prometheus' design and how they navigated them.
- Diagnosing Bottlenecks: Discover how to combine observability signals—metrics, profiles, and traces—to pinpoint and overcome performance roadblocks.
- Building Resilience: Uncover strategies to optimize metrics volume and enhance Prometheus' reliability under load.

This session isn’t just about pushing technology to the edge—it’s about learning to work smarter, build better systems, and create a more resilient observability stack.

Speakers

Bryan Boreham

Distinguished Engineer, Grafana Labs

Bryan Boreham is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on highly scalable storage for metrics, logs and traces. Bryan's career has ranged from charting pie sales at a bakery to real-time pricing of billion-dollar bond trades. A contributor to many Open Source projects... Read More →

Chris Leavoy

Staff Observability Engineer, Etsy

Chris Leavoy is a Staff Engineer who leads Etsy's Observability practice. From the good old days of MRTG to modern-day Cloud Native, Chris has a long track record of helping large enterprises wrangle their distributed systems. Bryan Boreham is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Observability

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Bryan Boreham

Chris Leavoy

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