Building Prometheus Metrics Support in OpenTelemetry

Explore the development of Prometheus metrics support in OpenTelemetry through this 22-minute conference talk by Alolita Sharma from Amazon. Dive into the design and implementation of a complete metrics pipeline with full Prometheus interoperability. Learn about the OpenTelemetry architecture, data model challenges, and enhancements to the Collector and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Discover the progress made in building a stable metrics pipeline, including support for both delta and cumulative metrics. Gain insights into the Prometheus remote-write push pipeline and improvements to the Prometheus receiver and remote-write exporter. Understand how these advancements contribute to the cloud-native observability framework's ability to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for monitoring application and infrastructure behavior.

Introduction
About Alolita
OpenTelemetry Architecture
Prometheus
Objectives
Data Model
Challenges
Process
Progress
Summary
Outro