Scaling Prometheus: Frameworks for High-Volume Metrics
Date: Tue, April 28, 2026
Location: Virtual
Prometheus has become the de facto open source metrics monitoring solution. But, as environments grow larger and more complex, teams managing their own Prometheus often run into challenges at all stages of the metrics lifecycle: from metrics creation through monitoring and visualization.
In this webinar, we walk through the common side effects teams face when scaling Prometheus and different approaches teams can take to get ahead of challenges related to managing active time series, scraping metrics, retention, and querying.
Key Takeaways:
- How to recognize the early signs that Prometheus is hitting scaling limits
- Where teams most commonly struggle across the metrics lifecycle
- The downstream impact on performance, reliability, and operational overhead
- How to know it’s time to move to a managed solution
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Speakers
Paige Cruz is a Principal Developer Advocate at Chronosphere passionate about cultivating sustainable on-call practices and bringing folks their aha moment with observability.
She started as a software engineer at New Relic before switching to Site Reliability Engineering holding the pager for InVision, Lightstep, and Weedmaps. Off-the-clock you can find her spinning yarn, swooning over alpacas, or watching trash TV on Bravo.
John is a Senior Sales Engineer at Chronosphere with nearly a decade of experience in the monitoring and observability space. John started as an engineer working on time-series data collection and analysis before moving to a pre-sales/customer-support role, and has worked with numerous companies across industries to solve their unique observability challenges.
Victor Soares is the Metrics Platform Product Manager at Chronosphere. Victor spent the first part of his career as a software developer and technical account manager at various companies. He started his product management career in observability at New Relic, where he discovered his passion for helping developers and operators troubleshoot and understand their systems. Victor lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where he enjoys cycling, hiking, soccer, basketball, and adventuring with his family in the Pacific Northwest.