Prometheus 2.32.0-rc.0 is available

[Julius Volz]

Hi everyone,

We just released the first official release candidate of Prometheus 2.32!

As a major new feature, it includes a new Agent Mode, which allows operating Prometheus as an optimized remote_write-forwarder without full local TSDB or querying capabilities (this was already pre-released separately as v2.32.0-beta.0 a few weeks ago: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.32.0-beta.0). See also Bartek's detailed blog post about the new Agent Mode: https://prometheus.io/blog/2021/11/16/agent/

Relative to the beta pre-release, v2.32.0-rc.0 now also includes support for forwarding exemplars in Agent Mode, an adapted web UI for the Agent, as well as a couple of smaller Agent-unrelated improvements.

The v2.32.0-rc.0 can be found in the usual locations:

- See the full changelog & grab the binaries:
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.32.0-rc.0
- See https://quay.io/repository/prometheus/prometheus?tab=tags and
https://hub.docker.com/r/prom/prometheus/tags for container images.

Please help us test and validate this release candidate, so that we can find and fix any outstanding issues with it before the full 2.32 release.

Cheers,

Julius