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Understanding Metrics, Logs, Events and Traces - the key pillars of observability and their pros and cons for SRE and DevOps teams.

How to filter metrics by labels using OpenTelemetry Collector

How to set Service Level Objectives with 3 steps guide

Better practices and tools for management of on-call practices

A monorepo is a single version control repository that holds all the code,configuration files, and components required for your project (includingservices like search) and it’s how most projects start. However, as a projectgrows, there is debate as to whether the project’s code should be split in…

What are the differences between Prometheus and InfluxDB - use cases, challenges, advantages and how you should go about choosing the right tsdb

Learn about what is Prometheus Remote Write and how to configure it.

OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus - Difference in architecture, and metrics

What’s the difference between SREs and Platform Engineers? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

A comprehensive guide to downsampling metrics data in Prometheus with alternate robust solutions

In reliability engineering, three concepts keep getting talked about - DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering. How do they differ?

A comprehensive guide to relabeling strategies in Prometheus

OpenTelemetry vs. OpenTracing - differences, evolution, and ways to migrate to OpenTelemetry

Everything you want to know about Prometheus and Thanos, their differences, and how they can work together.

What is OpenTelemetry Collector, Architecture, Deployment and Getting started

What are the alternatives to Prometheus? A guide to comparing different Prometheus Alternatives.

What is Prometheus Operator, how it can be used to deploy Prometheus Stack in Kubernetes environment

A comprehensive guide on understanding high cardinality Prometheus metrics, proven ways to find high cardinality metrics and manage them.

This article will go over what Prometheus exporters are, how to properly find and utilize prebuilt exporters, and tips, examples, and considerations when building your own exporters.

We discuss the nuances of Federation in Prometheus, address Prometheus Scaling Challenges along with alternatives to Prometheus federation

A deep dive on different metric types in Prometheus and best practices

A comprehensive guide to instrument Java applications using OpenTelemetry libraries

A comprehensive guide to instrument Golang applications using OpenTelemetry libraries for metrics and traces

What is Prometheus and Grafana, What is Prometheus and Grafana used for, What is difference between Prometheus and Grafana.

Follow LastNine to see stories curated to collections like Last9 of Reliability on Flipboard.

Internship to contributing to Core Distributed Tracing Platform at Razorpay with Sunny Arora

Becoming better SRE by understanding the human connection with software systems

From Frontend to SRE to building a product for SREs

Applying Software Engineering principles to world of Operations

Community, Empathy and OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry and building Observability Platforms

Sys-Admin Down Under to SRE Manager in Bay Area with Matthew Iselin from Replit

Turbo C to SRE via startups, consulting and again startup with Sagar Rakshe

Learnings, musings, taking your chances and much more with Sathya Bhat

Today, we have Sebastian Vietz from Compass Digital sharing his SRE story. I came across Sebastian’s post on LinkedIn a few weeks back that he will be coming to SRECon and connected with him. Meeting him in person and seeing his enthusiasm and energy about observability and reliability engineering w…

Tiago Dias Generoso from Brasil sharing his #SRE Story.

Today we have Suraj Nath as part of the SRE Stories. Suraj works as Software Engineer at Grafana Labs on Tempo and Grafana Cloud Traces products. Before this, he was an early hire at Clarisights. Suraj is a speaker at various technical conferences. He also runs a meetup -

For the second edition of the A day in the life of an SRE series, we have Mohit Shukla. Mohit is known as ethicalmohit on interwebs. He works as a Site Reliability Engineer at Bureau, Inc. Mohit introduces himself as an SRE generalist with seven years of experience. He has worked on multi-dimensions…

A day in the life of an SRE | Ashwin Murali - Cloud Infra and Engineering Manager at CoLearn

In the world of economics, the Laffer Curve is a concept that depicts the relationship between tax rates and government revenue. However, this curve can also be applied to various domains beyond…

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an established and critical practice, widely recognized for its importance in modern software organizations. Its emphasis on reliability, scalability, and…

1. Metric Name: This is the unique identifier for each type of data that is being collected. The name should be descriptive enough to represent the information being tracked. 2. Timestamp: This is…

In the realm of computer science, distributed systems have revolutionized how we perceive, manage, and employ data processing. A distributed system brings together multiple computer nodes…

In the complex landscape of modern computing, two key concepts reign supreme: metrics and logs. While both are instrumental in understanding the performance and operation of software applications…

I always look forward to hearing stories from people, their workflows, and how they improve their craft. As part of Last9, where we build…

When I joined Last9 three years back, I knew little about SRE and Observability. The situation is not changed after three years :) There is a lot to learn in the Observability space. I am yet to find…