Nicolas Takashi

@ntakashi.com

Software Engineer talking about Observability | Cloud-Native | SDE | SRE

Are you using target relabeling rules in @prometheus.io? I wrote a short blog post about the new relabeling rule visualizer I built that just got released with Prometheus v3.8.0, and which can help you make sense of your rules: prometheus.io/blog/2025/12...

Visualizing Target Relabeling Rules in Prometheus 3.8.0 | Prometheus

An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.

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#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.

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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

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.

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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 🕓

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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!

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Thanos Monitoring@thanos.io · last yr.

Good morning from #KubeCon London! 🇬🇧 We are at kiosk 10A in the Project Pavilion until 3 pm! Come chat about scalable metrics and get your questions answered! 💜

Booth 10A at the Project Pavilion, with Thanos slides loaded up!

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

🚀 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...

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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.

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...

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I'm playing with a side project, non related to observability at all. Having a lot of fun writing code with NextJS + Hono + Cloudflare workers. Super simple, nice ecosystem. I'm pretty impressed.

Excited for the new Prometheus Operator release! Highlights: 1️⃣ Default Prometheus 3.0.1 2️⃣ Role Selectors for Service/Pod Monitors 3️⃣ OTLP Receiver support 4️⃣ OTLP Translation Strategy Check it out 👉

Release 0.79.0 / 2024-12-13 · prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator

ImportantWith this release, the operator will be deploying Prometheus v3.0.1 unless a specific version is specified. Users who want to stay with Prometheus v2 need to set the version field under Pr...

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