QCon London 2026: Wrangling Telemetry at Scale, a Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

At QCon London 2026, Colin Douch discussed building and operating self-hosted monitoring stacks, surveyed the current tooling landscape, and explained how to build a coherent observability setup rather than treating logs, metrics, and traces as separate pillars. Douch, site reliability engineer at DuckDuckGo, opened the session by challenging the audience: Do you ever feel … Read more

Prometheus 3.0 Brings New UI, OpenTelemetry Support and More

Version 3.0 of the popular open-source monitoring system Prometheus has been released, marking the tool’s first major update in seven years. A variety of new features have been added, with improvements aimed at enhancing the user experience and streamlining workflows. The completely revamped user interface (UI) is one of the most noticeable changes in Prometheus … Read more