 Okay, so welcome to the lightning talk sessions in this and that room, so from now we will have five minutes talk, five minutes speaker change, five minutes talk, and so on until the end of the session. And first up is Richie, who is also staffed here, the first time making this happen, so thank you very much, and welcome. Yeah, so, welcome to a short introduction to open metrics, what is open metrics? Well, first we have to answer what Prometheus is, this is probably better, I'm just going to do this. Prometheus, you've heard it, if you've been in this room quite a few times already, it's been taken whole monitoring road by storm and it's becoming more of the effective standard of monitoring, especially in cloud native deployments. It has a lot of libraries integration to us, stuff which you probably care about, but it also has a really, really good form to actually transport data from the data sources to your monitoring system, and this is not limited to just Prometheus, others can also use this for obvious reasons. There's also this very important concept of rebrake actually with the normal hierarchical stuff, so normally you would have like region, data center, customer blah, or you might have customer region, or customer data center blah, or whatever your structure is, it's always wrong. So transposing this into labels, they can sort of slice and dice your data, it's insanely more powerful. We also heard this in Google talk today. So there is one large political issue with this. The main Prometheus and Prometheus exposition format is apparently tied to a project Prometheus, which is a problem for a lot of companies who actually both want to sell you services because they actually don't want you to look at their competitors when you look at the exposition or the name of the exposition format. There's one notable exception in flux data, they actually support us, even though they want to earn money and do the same, so that's really nice of them. There's also the other consideration of, while we probably did a really, really good job at what we did, still it was just us. So to actually achieve this goal of getting away from this hierarchical model of monitoring towards labels, we really want to change how the world does monitoring or looks at monitoring. We wanted to pull in more expertise by other players who have other experiences or maybe more or maybe different. So we can actually talk with those people about what we're doing, just on the why I'm transmitting those metrics. So what we're doing is we're springing out all the metrics into its own thing. It's not the Prometheus exposition format any longer. It becomes the open metric standard. It will join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a fully-fledged project. And it will also be an internet draft that I'm trying to get this published as an RFC. You can actually go to a vendor and tell, okay, I want to have RFC one to three. All of a sudden, you slip through this support in your public tenure. That's really nice. There's quite a bit of support behind this already. These companies already confirmed that they would like to do this and join. There's more than fits on the slide, but those were the first ones. And at some point, I stopped adding people, so first come, first serve. We will probably publish the first version in Q1, so one or two months more, and then we actually have to program and the text format is specified, so you can actually start using this in your own applications. Obviously, our own libraries from Prometheus will also start supporting this. OpenSense will support this. A few others will support this. Grafana Labs will support this. Calvary will support this. Quite a few people will support this. If you want to have a look, that's the URL. We also link to the Proto design specs and everything from that site. So, yeah, that's basically it. Thank you. Okay, next talk starts in five minutes for now. A speaker after that talk.