Links tagged “monitoring”

brooker.co.za

Meet Alice. Alice is impatient.: Marc Brooker on why your average user waits longer than your average response time. Queueing theory you can feel.

blainsmith.com

Tracing HTTP requests with Go’s net/http/httptrace: instrument DNS, TCP, TLS and TTFB with nothing but the standard library.

johnscolaro.xyz

Log by time, not by count: a short piece about better logs.

microverse.ashwch.com

microverse: lightweight macOS application designed for efficient system monitoring of battery health, CPU, and memory

github.com

Local Lens: A 100% local development monitoring tool that captures both browser and server logs for LLM analysis.

clickhouse.com

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thenewstack.io

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ops.tips

How to provision Grafana data sources and dashboards from config files at startup, so an instance comes up fully configured without anyone touching the UI.

unixism.net

What the kernel's Pressure Stall Information interface reports for CPU, memory and I/O, and why its stall percentages read better than load average.

github.com

cAdvisor documentation for scraping application-level metrics out of containers, configured through Docker labels and a per-container endpoint spec.

datadoghq.com

Announcement that Datadog Agent 6.5 can scrape Prometheus and OpenMetrics endpoints and forward those metrics into Datadog.

docs.datadoghq.com

Datadog documentation on how the Agent derives tags for containers and pods from their labels, annotations and environment variables.

docs.datadoghq.com

Datadog documentation for the Varnish check — installation, configuration, and the connection, cache-miss and eviction metrics it collects.

jaegertracing.io

Documentation portal for Jaeger, the open-source distributed tracing platform, covering architecture, deployment, storage backends and operations.

itnext.io

Short walkthrough setting up Kubernetes cluster monitoring with Prometheus and the Prometheus Operator.

gaffer.readthedocs.io

Documentation for Gaffer, a Python tool that launches, supervises and controls applications and jobs across machines through an HTTP API.

imply.io

Commercial platform from the original creators of Apache Druid, selling managed and hybrid Druid deployments for storing and querying observability and security data.

osquery.io

SQL-powered instrumentation framework that exposes a Linux, macOS or Windows machine as a relational database of processes, ports, users and files.

prometheus.io

Open-source monitoring system and time series database that scrapes and stores metrics, then queries them with PromQL for alerting and dashboards.

github.com

A stateless log router that runs as a Docker container, attaches to every other container on the host and forwards their logs elsewhere.