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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
Staff Post 2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
By Chris Aniszczyk  By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
January 29, 2025
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Prometheus 3.0 unveiled: highlights from PromCon Europe 2024
Ambassador Post Prometheus 3.0 unveiled: highlights from PromCon Europe 2024
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador TL;DR Key updates: PromCon Europe 2024 just wrapped up in Berlin, and this year’s edition was a big one. Not just because the Prometheus community...
October 17, 2024 | Dotan Horovits

Congratulations to 57 CNCF Term 1 LFX Program Mentees!
Mentorship Post Congratulations to 57 CNCF Term 1 LFX Program Mentees!
By Staff A huge number of successful CNCF interns have graduated from this term’s LFX Program: 57!    We had a great showing from the CNCF community with involvement across Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects as well...
June 9, 2023

Prometheus roadmap and latest updates
Project Post Prometheus roadmap and latest updates
Guest post originally published on Medium’s blog by Dotan Horovits TL;DR Key updates: We Just celebrated 10 year birthday to Prometheus last month. Prometheus was the second project to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after Kubernetes in 2016, and has...
January 3, 2023 | Dotan Horovits

Why we selected Thanos for long term metrics storage
Member Post Why we selected Thanos for long term metrics storage
Guest post originally published on the Elastisys blog Metrics answer 3 questions: Are your users happy? Is your application happy? Are your servers happy? Application developers create dashboards based on metrics for situational awareness or to...
April 18, 2022

CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
Staff Post CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenMetrics as a CNCF incubating project.  OpenMetrics creates an open standard for transmitting cloud-native metrics at scale. It acts as an open standard for Prometheus and...
February 3, 2022

Liveblog: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
Member Post Liveblog: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
Guest post originally published on Chronosphere‘s blog by Amanda Mitchell, Senior Content Marketing Manager at Chronosphere Hello sunny LA and happy KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021-eve! Team Chronosphere has set up shop on the KubeCon...
November 3, 2021 | Amanda Mitchell

Prometheus HA with Thanos sidecar or receiver?
Member Post Prometheus HA with Thanos sidecar or receiver?
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Tayyab Jamadar Prometheus has been the flag bearer for monitoring the systems for a long time now. It has proved itself as a go-to solution for monitoring and...
September 10, 2021 | Tayyab Jamadar

OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
Staff Post OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as a CNCF incubating project. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud native software. It is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can...
August 26, 2021

CNCF LFX Projects are Open for Summer 2021 – Apply by May 17th!
Staff Post CNCF LFX Projects are Open for Summer 2021 – Apply by May 17th!
CNCF has a great line up of projects participating in the Summer Term of LFX from June 1st – August 31st. 13 Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects will be participating with 17 project ideas available for...
May 4, 2021 | Chris Abraham

CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2020
Staff Post CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2020
2020年CNCF中国云原生调查 At CNCF, we regularly survey our community to better understand the adoption of open source and cloud native technologies. For the fourth time, we conducted the Cloud Native Survey China in Mandarin to gain deeper...
April 28, 2021

16 CNCF Interns Graduate from Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020!
16 CNCF Interns Graduate from Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020!
Having participated in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) since 2017, CNCF is thrilled to announce that this year, 16 interns working on the Foundation’s projects have graduated from the program. Interns this year got to...
September 17, 2020 | Chris Abraham

TOC welcomes Cortex as an incubating project
Project Post TOC welcomes Cortex as an incubating project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Cortex as an incubation-level hosted project. Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus. “Cortex is an excellent addition to the CNCF...
August 20, 2020

Seven CNCF interns graduate from the 2020 Linux Foundation CommunityBridge Program
Staff Post Seven CNCF interns graduate from the 2020 Linux Foundation CommunityBridge Program
We are very pleased to announce that as part of CNCF’s participation in CommunityBridge, seven interns have successfully passed the program! CommunityBridge is a platform that aims to sustain open source projects and through paid internships for...
April 15, 2020 | Ihor Dvoretskyi

How Jaeger helped Grafana Labs improve query performance and root out tough bugs
How Jaeger helped Grafana Labs improve query performance and root out tough bugs
The company behind the popular open source Grafana project, Grafana Labs offers customers a hosted metrics platform called Grafana Cloud, which incorporates Metrictank, a Graphite-compatible metrics service, and Cortex, the CNCF sandbox project for multitenant, horizontally...
December 11, 2019

TOC approves CNCF SIGs and creates security and storage SIGs
TOC approves CNCF SIGs and creates security and storage SIGs
Earlier this year, the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to create CNCF Special Interest Groups (SIGs). CNCF SIGs are currently being bootstrapped in various focus areas and primarily led by recognized experts and supported by contributors. They...
June 24, 2019

Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Prometheus is one of the standard-bearing open-source solutions for monitoring and observability. From its humble origins at SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus quickly garnered widespread adoption and later became one of the first CNCF projects and just the second to...
December 18, 2018 | Luc Perkins

The beginner’s guide to the CNCF landscape
The beginner’s guide to the CNCF landscape
This blog was originally posted on the CloudOps blog, by Ayrat Khayretdinov The cloud native landscape can be complicated and confusing. Its myriad of open source projects are supported by the constant contributions of a vibrant...
November 5, 2018

CNCF to host Cortex in the Sandbox
CNCF to host Cortex in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced acceptance of Cortex, a multitenant Prometheus-as-a-Service, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Developed to scale Prometheus in a multitenant fashion,...
September 20, 2018 | Kristen Evans

CNCF to host OpenMetrics in the Sandbox
CNCF to host OpenMetrics in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted OpenMetrics, an open source specification for metrics exposition, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. OpenMetrics brings together the maturity and...
August 10, 2018 | Kristen Evans

Prometheus user profile: Dynamically helping Weaveworks accelerate cloud native application development
Prometheus user profile: Dynamically helping Weaveworks accelerate cloud native application development
Sometimes two things go so well together you wonder how you ever saw them separately, like peanut butter and chocolate coming together to make Reese’s cups. The combination of Kubernetes and Prometheus invokes the same feeling...
February 24, 2017 | Kristen Evans