Grafana: The open and composable observability platform

In an episode of the "Grafana’s Big Tent" podcast, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie discuss the evolution of Prometheus with Julius Volz, its co-creator, and Richard Hartmann, a Prometheus maintainer. Prometheus, originally developed at SoundCloud as an internal tool to address monitoring issues, has grown into a significant open-source project in the observability domain. The podcast highlights Prometheus's journey from version 1.x to 3.0, emphasizing its text-based metrics format, which enhances accessibility and performance. Prometheus's compatibility with Kubernetes, despite not sharing origins, was quickly established due to shared inspirations from Google's tools. Prometheus 3.0 is noted for its performance improvements and the introduction of native histograms, which provide more detailed insights into data. The episode also discusses the governance changes inspired by OpenTelemetry to broaden the contributor base. The podcast encourages engagement from listeners with stories or feedback.