PromCon EU 2025Talk abstract
From Manual to Managed: Prometheus Agent Deployment at Scale
The journey to comprehensive monitoring is paved with significant challenges, including navigating restrictive security policies, adapting to complex network topologies, and shifting developer mindsets. Therefore, automating the deployment and maintenance of the Prometheus Agents is as critical as the stability of the monitoring system itself.
This presentation continues the narrative from last year's discussion on the trials of building and promoting our core Prometheus/Thanos monitoring service. Now, we turn our focus to the crucial task of data ingestion: deploying and managing the Prometheus Agents that feed our observability platform. This session will provide a case study of four distinct ways we have successfully implemented to address the challenge of Prometheus adoption in an automated way at scale.
Furthermore, we will address the complex networking hurdles of secure data transmission, including authentication and authorization strategies.
The presentation will conclude with a live, hands-on demonstration. We will use our simple Go templating tool to install a Prometheus Agent on a Raspberry Pi cluster and witness how easy the UTF8 metric appears in our central monitoring platform, showcasing the power and simplicity of our approach.
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