Operating Prometheus in a Serverless World

Explore the challenges and solutions for operating Prometheus in serverless architectures through this 30-minute conference talk by Colin Douch from Cloudflare. Delve into the limitations of traditional Prometheus configurations when applied to serverless computing environments. Examine the drawbacks of existing solutions like the Prometheus Pushgateway and cloud provider-specific platforms. Discover Cloudflare's innovative approach to maintaining Prometheus systems in production for serverless architectures. Learn about potential improvements for upstream Prometheus to better accommodate serverless monitoring needs. Gain valuable insights into achieving comprehensive timeseries metrics in distributed systems utilizing serverless computing.