Grafana Labs participated in KubeCon, showcasing various talks that highlighted advancements and solutions in monitoring and debugging within the Kubernetes ecosystem. Joe Elliott demonstrated a method for debugging live applications using a Kubernetes-native approach with sidecars, allowing for low-impact profiling without significant changes to nodes. Tom Wilkie discussed techniques to accelerate PromQL queries using Cortex, applicable to Thanos and Prometheus. Björn Rabenstein explained how to incorporate latency into SLO-based alerting within Prometheus, drawing from principles in The Site Reliability Workbook. Goutham Veeramachaneni shared insights on managing Cortex, focusing on capacity planning and query performance, and, along with Ed Welch, explored solutions to the deployment complexities of microservices by using a single binary app. Ganesh Vernekar and Matt Layher provided an introduction to Prometheus, emphasizing its multidimensional data model, powerful query language, and system monitoring integrations, underscoring its advantages over traditional monitoring systems.