Elixir observability using PromEx

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Alex Koutmos about Elixir observability using PromEx. Why do we need to understand how our setup behaves? What is PromEx and where does PromEx fit in changelog.com?

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Featuring:

• Alex Koutmos – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• prom_ex - an Elixir Prometheus metrics library built on top of Telemetry
• Grafana Agent
• Alex’s hex.pm packages
• My.Thoughts v1
• Beam Radio

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!