Session: Prometheus and OpenTelemetry: Better Together
Prometheus is a fixture of the observability landscape, widely relied upon for monitoring and alerting within organizations. Despite its utility in the cloud native ecosystem, it presents operational challenges. How can this be alleviated? Enter OpenTelemetry (OTel), Prometheus’ best friend!
Join Adriana Villela and Reese Lee as they navigate an observability realm where OTel enhances Prometheus’ capabilities:
- Learn how to the OTel Collector’s Prometheus Receiver can be used to ingest Prometheus metrics and the OTel Operator’s Target Allocator (TA) for Prometheus service discovery.
- Learn how the TA ensures even distribution of Prometheus targets.
- Discover alternative methods for Prometheus infrastructure metric collection through OTel-native options like the K8s cluster receiver and kubelet receiver.
The session will weigh the pros and cons of this setup and conclude with a demonstration of the enhanced Prometheus landscape with OTel, using Grafana to render the metrics.
