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Seven years is a long time in observability. Since Prometheus 2.0 landed in 2017, the ecosystem has been transformed by cloud-native adoption, the rise of distributed tracing, and the emergence of OpenTelemetry as the de facto standard for instrumentation. Prometheus 3.0, released in November 2024, is the project’s answer to that transformation — and its most significant change is the native ability to ingest OpenTelemetry metrics directly, without an intermediary collector standing in the way. This article goes deep on what Prometheus 3.0 actually changes for platform engineers and cloud architects who are running — or planning to run —…