Aggregating Metrics In-Flight: Challenges and Opportunities

As Kubernetes environments scale, observability costs and performance challenges grow with them. One common strategy to improve Prometheus query performance is recording rules, but these come at a cost—additional compute, storage, and latency.
What if we could aggregate metrics before they even reach the TSDB?

Speaker

  • Roman Khavronenko
    Roman Khavronenko
    VictoriaMetrics

    Roman is a software engineer with experience in distributed systems, databases, monitoring, and high-performance microservices. Roman’s passion is open source and he’s proud to have contributions to Prometheus, Grafana, and ClickHouse. Currently, Roman is working on the open source time series database and monitoring solution VictoriaMetrics.