2022-01-10

Prometheus agent mode

Check out Why is the Prometheus Agent Mode So Great? by Alex Vazquez if you're wondering what you want to use to scrape your (Prometheus) metrics, locally.

Grafana Loki tips

Lauren Johnson shares Five tricks for logging at scale in a Kubernetes environment with Grafana Loki. Nice!

Deephaven alerting

Deephaven & Prometheus by Jake Mulford shows how to enable alerting for this analytics query engine.

Hybrid environments o11y

My colleagues Amandeep Bajwa, Amanveer Singh, Amar Surj, and Daniel Castro share How to monitor hybrid environments with AWS services.

BumbleBee for eBPF

Idit Levine, the CEO and founder of Solo.io (a service meshes company), announced BumbleBee, a project that enables you to build, ship, and run eBPF tools. One of the highlighted use cases is, you've guessed it, observability!

Parca community meeting

Are you into continuous profiling with Parca, an open source solution for stand-alone or Kubernetes deployments? Consider joining the Parca community office hours, every second Tuesday at an US and EMEA friendly time.

Dashboard design

5 Dashboard Design Best Practices by Charles Mahler is a nice and concise guide on the topic.

Monitoring Redis

Ajeet Singh Raina provides a hands-on walkthrough on How to monitor Redis with Prometheus and Grafana for Real-Time Analytics.

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That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Twitter—DMs are open if you like to share something in private. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!