Grafana Labs, known for its contributions to the open-source monitoring ecosystem, announced its transition from Cortex to launching Grafana Mimir, a scalable long-term storage solution for Prometheus, capable of handling over a billion metrics. At the upcoming virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU event, Grafana Labs team members will participate in various sessions, including talks on optimizing Prometheus's scalability and performance, addressing memory usage issues, and introducing the OpenMetrics format for standardized metric exposition. The event will also feature discussions on enhancing Prometheus's histogram functionality and will include a Prometheus booth staffed by Grafana Labs experts. The conference promises insights into the latest developments in Prometheus and related technologies, with opportunities for attendees to engage with maintainers and industry experts.