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Nicolas Takashi
@ntakashi.com
Software Engineer talking about Observability | Cloud-Native | SDE | SRE
#PromCon was amazing, really good to see some old friends and meet new ones.

Amazing talks, the energy was so nice, and it’s amazing to see the Prometheus Ecosystem so alive.

See you soon folks.
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Takashi
Reminder: The CfP for #PromCon (October 21+22 in Munich) is open! Please submit your @prometheus.io talks :)

promcon.io/2025-munich/...
PromCon
PromCon, the conference about the Prometheus monitoring system and time series database
promcon.io
June 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This week I had the opportunity to start writing a new Kubernetes Controller, at Coralogix most of the services are Rust based.

So I decided to give a try to rust and kube-rs, since I’m not a rustician, that would be a great opportunity to learning
June 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Foi maneiro demais, valeu mano @carlosenog.dev
June 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Ever wondered what actually happens between your dashboards and Prometheus?

I just shipped a new version of prom-analytics-proxy, and wrote about the blind spots it solves in query visibility

ntakashi.com/blog/prometh...

DMs open, feedback welcome 🙌
Gain Prometheus Query Visibility with prom-analytics-proxy
Track PromQL usage patterns, query performance, and system impact in real time using prom-analytics-proxy — a drop-in tool for Prometheus and Thanos users.
ntakashi.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reposted by Nicolas Takashi
A really nice overview of @PersesDev at the #kubeconeu talk by @ntakashi.com and Antoine Thébaud, Limitless Possibilities, Consistent Design: Crafting Dashboards with Perses DaC. #cloudnative #observability #o11y youtu.be/7h70Olo5Uzk
Limitless Possibilities, Consistent Design: Crafting Dashboards... Nicolas Takashi & Antoine Thébaud
YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
youtu.be
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
KubeCon EU Dump
April 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I’m glad to be presenting at #KubeCon today!

Over 400 attendees signed up to join me and Antoine Thebaud and see how #PersesDev is changing the way we manage dashboards, with consistency, scalability, and code.

Let’s craft something better together.

See you there at 16:00 🕓
April 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Takashi
We are ready for Day 2 at #KubeCon!

We were excited to talk to so many nice Thanos users yesterday! Let's continue that energy! 💜

Also, catch some lovely guest appearances at the booth from beloved community members like @friedrichge.bsky.social and @ntakashi.com!
April 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Ready for tomorrow, see you around folks.

#KubeCon
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
#KubeCon is right there ✊ on the door.

Who will be there too?

kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1txHy/...
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March 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This
Use a liveness probe when you know for sure the best possible thing to do is to kill your app.
March 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Reposted by Nicolas Takashi
I've just updated all of my Prometheus monitoring trainings at training.promlabs.com to Prometheus v3 and also updated most other component versions (Alertmanager, exporters, Prometheus Operator, SDKs, ...) to keep things fresh.

Check out the trainings if you want to learn @prometheus.io :)
Learn Prometheus From the Creator
Learn Prometheus in the most effective way with online trainings by PromLabs
training.promlabs.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Come to say Hi 👋
For the first time, @cncf.io sandbox project @PersesDev will be at #KubeCon EU in London with a booth in the Project Pavilion at kiosk number 3B! Core maintainers @nexucis, Antoine Thébaud, @ntakashi.com, and Gabriel Bernal will be there for a chat!
February 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Reposted by Nicolas Takashi
We’re thrilled to announce that #OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0 is here!
Announcing the OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0
We’re thrilled to announce that OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0 is here! We’ve been busy behind the scenes, polishing up the demo to make it more complete, robust, and user-friendly. We believe these exciting…
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
FOSDEM FOMO 😰
February 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I use to like the OTel project, especially for traces and logs.

But sometimes I feel that we’re just reinventing the wheel.

🤷‍♂️

opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ot...
Kubernetes annotation-based discovery for the OpenTelemetry Collector
In the world of containers and Kubernetes, observability is crucial. Users need to know the status of their workloads at any given time. In other words, they need observability into moving objects. Th...
opentelemetry.io
January 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Takashi
With Filip we wrote a blog post explaining the new @golang.org 1.23 "iter" package and its unexpected use case in the Go gRPC world and @thanos.io

We also dive into Go coroutines (not goroutines!) that makes new iterators even more special, enjoy! 🤗

bwplotka.dev/2025/go-grpc...
Optimizing in-process gRPC with Go 1.23 Iterators and Coroutines
A few years back I have been exploring solutions for the in-process gRPC pattern in Go, for the Thanos project . Recently, a friend and a Thanos maintainer Filip refreshed the initial Thanos solution ...
bwplotka.dev
January 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Takashi
This is a great read!
We get a lot of questions about our in-progress data center buildout...

So we asked Infrastructure Engineer Charith to write up everything you need to know about how to build your own data center

blog.railway.com/p/data-cente...
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.
blog.railway.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Today I went to write a new blog post about Thanos and OpenTelemetry, but my personal blog wasn't even building because of outdated dependencies 😅

Hopefully I didn't break anything during the upgrade
January 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
🚀 Excited to announce the latest version of prom-analytics-proxy! This update includes fixes and a powerful new feature to visualize metrics usage from dashboards, Prometheus rules, and ad-hoc queries. Here’s a sneak peek at the new metric detail page!

github.com/nicolastakas...
January 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Reposted by Nicolas Takashi
Are there any fantastic examples for Go SDKs wrapping HTTP/JSON (REST) APIs?

Like, imagine a really good Spotify SDK or whatever. Which ones can you recommend? Using the best standards, little reflection and lots of type-safety.
January 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Now it’s official!
I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be speaking at Observability Day alongside @Anthoine Thebaud about Dashboard as Code and Perses.

See you all in London, folks!
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January 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I'm excited to announce that InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 License: www.influxdata.com/blog/influxd...

We're also releasing an alpha of InfluxDB 3 Enterprise at the same time.

This builds on years of effort with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet.
InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 License
Announcing the alpha release of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. InfluxDB 3 Core is a recent-data engine for time series and event data. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise adds historical query capabilit...
www.influxdata.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM