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PromLabs Blog
Company blog · promlabs.com/blogprogrammingsystems
PromLabs Blog is the company blog at promlabs.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Why I recommend native Prometheus instrumentation over OpenTelemetry”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked PromLabs blog covers Prometheus and PromQL. The one comment here discusses how OpenTelemetry has changed Prometheus metrics; it does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
PromLabs - We teach Prometheus-based monitoring and observability
Most-linked posts?
- Why I recommend native Prometheus instrumentation over OpenTelemetry4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-07-17
What Hacker News says?
I think OTEL has made things worse for metrics. Prometheus was so simple and clean before the long journey toward OTEL support began. Now Prometheus is much more complicated: - all the delta-vs-cumulative counter confusion - push support for Prometheus, and the resulting out-of-order errors - the {"metric_name"} syntax changes in PromQL - resource attributes and the new info() function needed to join them I just don…
Comment linking /blog/2025/07/17/why-i-recommend-native-prometheus-instrumentation-over-opentelemetry/
on “I can't recommend Grafana anymore”Submitted An Update on PromQL Compatibility Across Vendors as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted PromQL Compliance Test Results as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Look at the New Prometheus 3.0 UI as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I recommend native Prometheus instrumentation over OpenTelemetry as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I recommend native Prometheus instrumentation over OpenTelemetry as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prometheus Turns 10 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I recommend native Prometheus instrumentation over OpenTelemetry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Duplicate Samples and Out-of-Order Timestamp Errors in Prometheus as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
