Observability
Dynatrace licensing and FinOps: rate cards, consumption tracking and budgets
Apply a FinOps approach to Dynatrace: understand the DPS rate card, track consumption per capability, attribute costs to teams, set budgets and alerts, an…
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Observability
Advanced Datadog logs: indexes, exclusion filters, Flex Logs, archives and Sensitive Data Scanner
Control the cost and compliance of Datadog logs: pipelines and processors, indexes and retention, exclusion filters, Flex Logs, archives and rehydration, …
Observability
Arize in production: self-hosted Phoenix, Arize AX, security, costs and monitoring
Going to production: Phoenix with PostgreSQL and authentication, an OpenTelemetry Collector in front of backends, masking and retention, token cost tracki…
Observability
Logs in Datadog: collection, pipelines, indexes and volume control
Collect logs with the agent, structure them with pipelines and processors (grok), use facets and queries, and control costs and retention with indexes, ex…
Observability
Storing and querying telemetry directly in ClickHouse
Send logs and traces to ClickHouse with the OpenTelemetry exporter, understand the table schema, write analytical SQL queries, manage retention (TTL) and …
Observability
SigNoz, ClickStack and ClickHouse best practices for observability
Production checklist for an observability platform on ClickHouse: OpenTelemetry instrumentation, batched ingestion, retention, replication, security and c…
Observability
Distributed tracing best practices with Jaeger
Checklist for useful tracing: OpenTelemetry instrumentation, span naming, attributes, propagation, sampling, storage and operating Jaeger.
Observability
VictoriaMetrics best practices
Production checklist for VictoriaMetrics: sizing, retention, high availability, vmagent, cardinality, backups and monitoring.
Observability
Grafana Pyroscope architecture and deployment
Pyroscope components (distributor, ingester, querier, store-gateway, compactor), object storage, monolithic and microservices modes, configuration and ret…
Observability
Tempo: object storage, blocks, compactor and distributed deployment
Configure Tempo storage: S3/GCS/Azure, the vParquet4 Parquet format, WAL, compactor and retention, cache, scaling and the tempo-distributed chart.
Observability
Prometheus best practices: metrics, cardinality, rules and operations
Prometheus best practices: metric naming, labels and cardinality, scrape intervals, recording rules, symptom-based alerts, storage and retention, high ava…
Observability
Grafana Tempo best practices: instrumentation, sampling, queries and costs
Tempo best practices: attribute conventions, useful instrumentation, sampling, using TraceQL, correlation, sizing, retention, security and review checklis…
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