A few months ago I changed jobs and companies, it has been a welcomed change but certainly have been drinking from the firehose! Now that things have settled down a little and I can get back to some of the things I love. The team I am working on now…

This article is going to take a different turn than my normal ones, this one is going to cover an application that I have been using for a while to take notes. …

Grafana is pretty easy to use and does not really require any training to get started. Once you add a datasource to Grafana it is game on. This article will just cover a few things that I found really useful once I learned them. They are in no particular order…

Node Exporter collects metrics about the device is it running on, Everything from CPU to Memory/Swap to Network Traffic to Disks and everything in between. If you are trying to ascertain the performance of a Linux machine, this is a great way to do it. …

For those of you that have read my other articles, you will know that we are moving away from the Elastic Stack in favor of Loki. While we are nearing the end of that transition, we still needed to monitor our Elasticsearch instances. We are utilizing OpenSearch in AWS for…

For those of you who happened to read Pulsar or Kakfa? you will know that we recently decided to jump into Pulsar with both feet. Part of our data flow uses Fluentd to route data to a number of places including Grafana Loki (Loki to the rescue) and some micro-services…

My plan with this series initially was to cover many of the exporters that we are using to collect Prometheus metrics, which is where Part 1 started. However, I am going to pivot a little based on what I am currently playing with. I will get back to that mission…

Introduction Executives love dashboards, many times they don’t truly understand what they are looking at, but graphs are easy to digest and understand if things are up or down. In an attempt to expose as many metrics as possible to the internal team I have started to review everywhere we can…

Like many authors that I have read in the past few days, I got the dreaded e-mail from Medium that I need 100 followers to continue in the Partner Program. I have been writing for a while, certainly not consistently, but trying to create thoughtful and useful articles. It was…