OpenMetrics: Prometheus Unbound
05-19, 17:15–17:20 (UTC), Main Hall

The State of the Art of OpenMetrics and some fundamentals about it.


Nowadays every application exposes their metrics via an HTTP endpoint readable by using Prometheus. Recently the exposition format got included into the OpenMetrics standard of the CNCF. But why a standardization process was needed and is good? And what are the novelties and differences OpenMetrics introduces?

This lightning talk will answer those questions while presenting the upcoming OpenMetrics official standard.

Leonardo is an Open Source Software Engineer at Sysdig where he mainly takes care of Falco, a CNCF project. His interests range from theoretical aspects of computer science to machine learning to distributed systems. He is also involved in the Linux Foundation's eBPF project (IO Visor) as a maintainer of kubectl-trace project.

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