Prometheus governance 2.0: Setting the project up for the next decade

Prometheus joined the CNCF as its second project in 2016, nearly a decade ago. Ever since, the Prometheus governance has been largely the same and served the community well.

Recently, it has become obvious that we need to scale the Prometheus team beyond the current 30 team members. We spent the last year or so, evaluating new governance structures, building consensus and executing on a plan to set the stage for the next decade of innovation.

Going forward, every contributor can become a Prometheus organization member. All members are going to vote for a steering committee. These improvements will enable members and maintainers to grow beyond the current 30 team members to at least 200 or more Prometheus members in the near future.

We will walk you through the existing governance structure, what worked and the challenges we ran into, the potential governance structures we evaluated, resources CNCF provides and tips that other projects can apply when evaluating a new governance.

Effortless, standardised homelab observability with eBPF

Running a homelab means running a diverse set of applications like NextCloud, readeck.org, usememos.com.

They are written in many languages and frameworks and in general lack a good way to monitor them. The old way to monitor them involved having a basic blackbox_exporter enabled synthetic monitoring. Even instrumented, each application has a different set of metrics, leading to complex alerting and dashboards.

Grafana Beyla, powered by eBPF and OpenTelemetry, combined with Prometheus promises to generate first class observability signals for services regardless of the language and frameworks used. We will walk through deploying Beyla for a homelab, and the challenges in having good observability even with Beyla.

We will walk through:

1. Deploying Beyla in your environment with Prometheus
2. Setting up dashboards for the data
3. Robust alerting over the signals, especially in low, sporadic traffic (homelab) scenarios.
4. The missing signals from eBPF and how you can fill those gaps

Beyla is under the process of being donated to OpenTelemetry and will likely be an OTel project by the time of the conference: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/2406