Devoxx UK 2025: Meet the New Kid in the Sandbox - Integrating Visualization with Prometheus (slides + recording)

Today, as previously posted, I was on stage at Devoxx UK in London. 

Over the years I've spoken at the Belgian and UK versions of Devoxx events. I've shared on topics covering application development, developer productivity, cloud development, and architecture. 

My last appearance was at Devoxx UK in 2022, so it was really fun to be back again in London with a topic near to my heart. I shared some good basic insights into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox level visualization and dashboard project.

This session is a lot of fun to explore and includes access to a free online project sandbox where you can play with the tooling. Not only that, you can make use of the free online workshop where you build everything hands-on from scratch and learn about the Perses dashboard and visualization experience.

Below I'll share my slides and the recording when available.

The slides are here online:

[Coming soon: The recording will be added here when posted by the organizers online.]

Below you will find the session title and abstract with a link to the session online for exact timings.

Meet the New Kid in the Sandbox - Integrating Visualization with Prometheus

When you jump in the CNCF Sandbox you will meet the new kid, a visualization and dashboards project called Perses. This session will provide attendees with the basics to get started with integrating Prometheus, PromQL, and more with Perses. A journey will be taken from zero to beautiful visualizations seamlessly integrated with Prometheus. This session leaves the attendees with hands-on self-paced workshop content to head home and dive right into creating their first visualizations and integrations with Prometheus and Perses!

Perses (visualization) - Great observability is impossible without great visualization! Learn how to adopt truly open visualization by installing Perses, exploring the provided tooling, tinkering with its API, and then get your hands dirty building your first dashboard in no time! The workshop is self-paced and available online, so attendees can continue to explore after the event: 

https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-perses

When: Thursday, 8 May

Where: Gallery Hall, 17:20 - 17:50 (UK timezone)

Thanks to all who attended the session and for the fun chats afterwards. Look forward to seeing you all again soon at the next Devoxx event!