Richard Hartmann is a member of the Prometheus Team and the founder of the OpenMetrics project, which aims to replace SNMP with a modern format for transmitting metrics. He joins your hosts to discuss both projects, and how Cloud Native technology can improve the datacenter.

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Links from the interview

Space.net
- Swiss Army Chainsaw
Prometheus
- Built by ex-Googlers at Soundcloud
- Better than MRTG and rrdtool
- Cortex, Thanos, InfluxData for persisting Prometheus data long-term
Manage multiple DCs
Grafana for visualising data
- Variables for templating
PromQL
OpenMetrics
- A new Lingua Franca for monitoring and tracing that isn’t SNMP
  - Export SNMP to Prometheus format
- Transforming the Prometheus Exposition Format into a Global Standard; Richard’s PromCon talk
- End goal: write an RFC
- GitHub repo
- Prometheus 2.5 has experimental OpenMetrics support
QUIC becomes HTTP/3
Get involved with the Prometheus community
Richard Hartmann on Twitter

Prometheus and OpenMetrics, with Richard Hartmann

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