PromCon Online 2021 highlights

PromCon Online 2021 showcased several key advancements and insights into Prometheus and related technologies, highlighting the growing ecosystem and community adoption. Among the notable features discussed were the Prometheus remote write function, which, despite being in the early stages of development, has gained popularity necessitating standardization efforts, and the Prometheus Conformance Program introduced to ensure compatibility across projects integrating with Prometheus. Presenters like Anais Urlichs and Bartlomiej Płotka demonstrated using Prometheus for automating Kubernetes rollouts by monitoring canary releases and triggering automatic rollbacks based on error rates. The event also featured lightning talks that covered a range of topics, from calculating historical values of recording rules and validating alert rule syntax, to gathering metrics from SNMP devices and predicting power consumption in data centers. The event emphasized the support available for Prometheus users, including resources provided by Sysdig, which adheres to Prometheus standards.