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+title: PromCon is Only One Month Away; See You in Person or via Live Stream!
+created_at: 2025-09-20
+kind: article
+author_name: Bartek Płotka (@bwplotka)
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+It's that time of the year again! With just a few weeks to go until [PromCon EU 2025](https://promcon.io/2025-munich/), the Prometheus community is buzzing with excitement, preparations, and passionate conference-driven development. This tenth iteration of the conference dedicated to the CNCF Prometheus monitoring ecosystem continues the tradition of a cozy, community-led, single-track, 2-day intense Prometheus user and developer learning time!
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+The conference is taking place on October 21–22 at the Google Office in Munich, with an incredible lineup of talks and discussions you won't want to miss!
+
+## Content Highlights
+
+The schedule is packed with sessions for everyone, from beginners to seasoned veterans. Topics range from:
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+* Exciting development of Prometheus features and protocols, e.g. OpenMetrics 2.0, downsampling, delta metric, Parquet-based storage.
+* Insightful user community case studies and integrations, e.g. agentic AI, OpenTelemetry Schema and Resource Attributes adoption, auto aggregations, operator improvements, Perses novelties and Rust ecosystem updates.
+* General best practices and guidelines for navigating complex observability ecosystems, e.g. Prometheus and OpenTelemetry instrumentation, new alerting methodologies, monitoring CPU hardware, and new PromQL aspects.
+
+...and more!
+
+## Last Tickets and Live Recordings
+
+A few last tickets are still available, but they will likely sell quickly soon. You can register for the conference here: <https://promcon.io/2025-munich/register/>.
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+However, if you can't make it to Munich, fear not! All talks will be live-streamed and available as recordings after the event.
+
+Feel free to bookmark livestream links below:
+
+* [Livestream Day 1](https://youtube.com/live/8h99_mfY6U4?feature=share)
+* [Livestream Day 2](https://youtube.com/live/SzSUa5y7Ji0?feature=share)
+
+## Lightning Talks Form is Now Open
+
+Following our tradition, we're offering space for any PromCon in-person participant (capacity limits apply) to deliver a 5-minute talk related to the Prometheus ecosystem.
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+If you have a last-minute learning, case study or idea to share with the community, feel free to prepare a few slides and sign up here: <https://forms.gle/2JF13tSBGzrcuZD7A>
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+The form will be open until the start of the PromCon conference.
+
+## Credits
+
+This conference wouldn't be possible without the hard work of the Prometheus team's core organisers ([Goutham](https://github.com/gouthamve), [Richi](https://github.com/richiH) and [Basti](https://github.com/bastischubert)), and the amazing [CNCF](https://www.cncf.io/) team!
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+We wouldn't be able to do it without our sponsors, too:
+
+* Diamond: [Grafana Labs](https://grafana.com/) and [VictoriaMetrics](https://victoriametrics.com/)
+* Platinum: [Red Hat](https://www.redhat.com/)
+* Gold: [HRT](https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/) and [Amadeus](https://amadeus.com/)
+* Venue: [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/managed-prometheus)
+
+We can't wait to see you there, either in person or online!