Post #687305

2026-03-13 08:45 UTC

9️⃣ Here&#39;s the 9th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v260 release of systemd. #systemd260 #systemd If you deploy systems and services, then beyond the general lifecycle management that systemd always did you typically also want some form of metrics monitoring/observability. There are various approach to this, but the most popular ones all operate with local agents that pull metrics out of local services, and make them available for centralized collection (prometheus, …).

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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 08:48

The need for having these bespoke agents in the middle whose only job is to query metrics in some local, service specific way, and publish them in a a more generic, abstract way is something that always irked me. systemd's own functionality for example is typically monitored via D-Bus, and the complexity of linking that up with things like prometheus, via purpose-written agents is just not that great. With systemd v260 we are trying to move things into a better direction on this front:

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@jlhertel@fosstodon.org 2026-03-13 12:08

@pid_eins wow, wasn't expecting this. From an observability and sysadmin perspective this looks amazing. Hoping that Prometheus picks this new interface fast, so that we can make use of it.

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@lhp@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 13:28

@pid_eins I liked skimming these feature posts. Sad to see systemd is a slop project now.

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