Errors, traces, logs, metrics: when to reach for what
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Power BI Visual Monitoring: Automatically Detecting Broken Visuals in Power BI Reports
Key Use Cases Power BI Visual Monitoring can be used for: power bi visual monitoring power bi report visual monitoring visual regression testing for P…
Netdata's Intrusive Cloud Account Prompts: How to Disable and Regain Focus on System Monitoring
Introduction Netdata, a once-revered open-source monitoring tool, has increasingly compromised its core functionality through aggressive and intrusive…
Setting Up Alerts and Notifications for Performance Bottlenecks
TL;DR Alert on symptoms, not causes – users feel latency and errors, not high CPU. Alert on p95 latency and error rates, not internal metrics. Use SLO…
Building an Application Log Analytics Platform with Amazon S3 Tables: Cost Optimization by Migrating from CloudWatch Logs
Introduction Our team had been using CloudWatch Logs as the log storage layer for our identity management system, but as the service grew, the associa…
Why I Built MentionFox Instead of Just Using Mention.com
Most founders who build a competitor to an existing tool do it because they couldn't afford the original. That wasn't my situation. I was paying for M…
Benchmarking time-series databases for ecommerce infrastructure monitoring
Time-series database performance under ecommerce load: real benchmark results Your monitoring stack becomes your worst enemy during traffic spikes if …
Enterprise Log Management in OCI: Moving Logs from OCI Logging to Object Storage Using Service Connector Hub
Introduction Logs are one of the most valuable sources of information in any cloud environment. Whether you're troubleshooting application failures, i…
Kubelet Metrics: How cAdvisor and CRI Collect Kubernetes Stats
This article was originally published on LearnKube TL;DR: This article dissects the Kubernetes metrics pipeline through kubelet, cAdvisor, and CRI to …
Антипаттерны Zabbix в крупной инфраструктуре: каталог базовых граблей
Две сцены, которые видел в разных компаниях в последний год. Сцена первая. На стене в кабинете директора по ИТ висит большой телек, на&…
One container to replace Grafana + Loki + Tempo + Prometheus
The standard observability stack: Grafana + Loki + Tempo + Prometheus. Four services to deploy, four configs to learn, dashboards to set up before you…
Detecting unusual processes on your servers without writing a single rule
Most security tooling works by asking you to define what "bad" looks like upfront. Falco gives you YAML rules. OSSEC has signatures. Wazuh has a 5,000…
Why your uptime monitor says everything's fine while users see a white screen
It was 11:47 PM on a Thursday when the Slack messages started rolling in. "Hey, the checkout page looks broken." "Is the site down? I'm seeing a blank…
Production-Grade Observability: Building a Complete LGTM Stack with SLOs, DORA Metrics, and Intelligent Alerting
Introduction In modern DevOps, simply knowing whether your application is "up" or "down" isn't enough. Users care about latency, reliability, and the …
Reducing Pager Fatigue: Why Excessive Alerting Systems Fall Short?
While recently discussing operational loads with a colleague, I heard them say, "I see the alerts, but I just don't feel like checking them anymore." …
I have talked to dozens of AI teams about production. The same things keep breaking.
I have been a PM at NETRA long enough to have had the same conversation about 40 times. An AI team reaches out. They're building something serious in …
SLO Alerting with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
Implementing SLO-Based Alerting with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus The Problem In microservices architectures, distributed tracing and monitoring are c…
Adding an LLM Narration Layer to a Self-Hosted Observability Stack
I almost made the classic AI architecture mistake. I could easily just dump raw Prometheus metrics and Loki logs into an LLM and ask it to summarize a…
Building GBIM Observability From Correlation IDs to a Populated k6 Dashboard
Summary In this iteration, I improved the observability of GBIM on both the backend and frontend, based on the latest origin/staging branch. The focus…
Supabase's Management API OAuth Endpoint Switches From 201 to 200 on May 26 — Here's What Silently Breaks
On May 26, 2026, the OAuth token exchange endpoint for Supabase's Management API — https://api.supabase.com/v1/oauth/token — will stop returning 201 C…
Monitoring: From Black Box to Glass Box
You've built your AI agent. You've configured the tools, crafted a thoughtful system prompt, and deployed it to your users. Job done, right? Not quite…
GitLab Scheduled Pipeline Monitoring: How to Catch Missed CI/CD Runs Before They Break Production
GitLab scheduled pipeline monitoring matters because scheduled CI/CD jobs can fail quietly while the rest of your system looks healthy. Your applicati…
Replacing Elasticsearch with ClickHouse : A 90% Cost-Reduction Migration
A practical guide based on shipping this for a crypto-derivatives platform — annual observability bill went from high six figures to ~$50K, with faste…
Health checks are integral to website maintenance programmes
Every company seeks stable, predictable revenue. And for agencies, studios, and in-house delivery teams the cyclical workflow makes that especially cr…
OpenAI Realtime Beta Disappears May 7 — Your Voice Agent's Audio Handlers Will Stop Firing With No Error
On May 7, 2026 — five days from now — OpenAI removes the Realtime API beta . If you have a voice agent, transcription pipeline, or any WebSocket/WebRT…