Looking for an open-source alternative to Grafana built for modern DevOps workflows? Meet Perses — a community-driven observability dashboarding tool focused on speed, simplicity, and GitOps-native design. In this lightning talk, we'll introduce Perses, a project developed as an extensible and performant solution for visualizing Prometheus metrics and more. Perses is ideal for teams who want version-controlled dashboards, high performance at scale, and complete open-source transparency. We'll take a look at the project's ongoing goals and overview of its flexible architecture, check it out at https://perses.dev/.