http://gph.is/1TFACgU On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 7:21 PM Bjoern Rabenstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Prometheans, > > tl;dr: I have just published a draft of a design document about > better histograms for Prometheus and would appreciate your feedback: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cLNv3aufPZb3fNfaJgdaRBZsInZKKIHo9E6HinJVbpM/edit?usp=sharing > > > As many of you might know, I have been (in-)famously working on > histograms for Prometheus from the very beginning of the Promethean > era. As Goutham has recently found out, I even mentioned histograms as > my favorite Prometheus topic during the very first conference talk > about Prometheus ever! (To be precise: It was SRECon Europe on > 2015-05-14, during the Q&A, when none less than Brendan Burns asked > about the topic.) > > What we currently have in Prometheus was only ever a prototype, at > least from my perspective. (o: > > In an ideal world, I would have sat down back in 2015 and created the > document linked above. Too many distractions by other interesting or > even urgent things, I guess. To get the whole narrative, you could > check out my recent "histogram trilogy of talks" (which will also give > you the gist of the design document): > > https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/histograms/ > > https://promcon.io/2019-munich/talks/prometheus-histograms-past-present-and-future/ > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG7uzON-IDM > > The bad news is that even after all those years, most of the work > still has to be done. Every layer of the Prometheus stack has to > change, which needs a coordinated effort. That's precisely the reason > why I created the design document, which you could also call an > RFC. After collecting your feedback, I hope to be able to evolve it > into something we can agree on as the way forward, serving as a master > plan to align the many detailed efforts that will have to follow. > > I hope you will enjoy the read, at least somewhat... > -- > Björn Rabenstein > [PGP-ID] 0x851C3DA17D748D03 > [email] [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/20210210182124.GP2725%40jahnn > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CABbyFmqWbf9YPrV0hyrs3eUn0BRFDMV%2BgHfpD%2B53JjG82jGiPQ%40mail.gmail.com.
