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Fabian Stäber

Senior Engineering Manager

Dr. Fabian Stäber is engineering manager and observability enthusiast at Grafana. He is a member of the Prometheus open source project, where he is maintainer of the Prometheus Java client library and the JMX exporter. At Grafana Fabian has his focus on application observability with OpenTelemetry.

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Fabian Stäber · 13 Mar 2024 · 9 min read

An OpenTelemetry backend in a Docker image: Introducing grafana/otel-lgtm

The grafana/otel-lgtm image is a great way to get started with open source monitoring with OpenTelemetry, as well as streamline integration testing.

Engineering

Fabian Stäber · 27 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

Introducing the Prometheus Java client 1.0.0

The Prometheus Java client 1.0.0 is here! Tune in to PromCon on Friday, Sept. 29 to find out how we added a blazing fast implementation of Prometheus...

Community

Prometheus

Fabian Stäber · 4 May 2022 · 7 min read

How to capture Spring Boot metrics with the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation Agent

Learn how use the OpenTelemetry Java instrumentation agent for exposing Spring's metrics directly in OpenTelemetry format.

Monitoring

Fabian Stäber · 1 Mar 2022 · 9 min read

How summary metrics work in Prometheus

An in-depth look at the CKMS algorithm and how it works with summary metrics in Prometheus.