Observability
Bindplane best practices
Checklist for operating Bindplane: organizing by labels and fleets, measured reduction, masking at the source, careful rollouts, configuration as code, hi…
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Observability
Zabbix best practices
Checklist for effective Zabbix monitoring: templates and macros, noise-free triggers, tag-based notifications, configuration as code, performance and high…
Observability
VictoriaMetrics cluster: vminsert, vmselect, vmstorage and multi-tenancy
The VictoriaMetrics cluster architecture: the roles of vminsert, vmselect and vmstorage, data distribution and replication, multi-tenant URLs, sizing and …
Observability
Thanos, Grafana Mimir or VictoriaMetrics: which long-term storage for Prometheus?
Detailed comparison of three long-term storage solutions for Prometheus: architecture, storage, high availability, multi-tenancy, downsampling, costs, ope…
Observability
VictoriaMetrics best practices
Production checklist for VictoriaMetrics: sizing, retention, high availability, vmagent, cardinality, backups and monitoring.
Observability
SRE: SLI, SLO and SLA explained simply
The fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): the difference between SLI, SLO and SLA, choosing indicators, number of nines and allowed downtime.
Observability
Measuring SLIs with Prometheus
Implement availability and latency SLIs with Prometheus: required metrics, ratio queries, histograms, multi-window recording rules and remaining budget.
Observability
Managing SLOs with Pyrra
Pyrra: define availability and latency SLOs as Kubernetes CRDs or files, generate Prometheus rules and track budgets and burn rates in its web interface.
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Alerting best practices: Prometheus, Alertmanager and on-call
Checklist for effective alerting: symptom-based rules, severities, routing by team, noise reduction, high availability, tests and alert reviews.
Observability
Why Grafana Mimir? Architecture and deployment modes
The limits of Prometheus alone, what Mimir brings (long-term storage, high availability, multi-tenancy), its components and its deployment modes.
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…
Proxy & networking
HAProxy in Kubernetes: the high-performance Ingress Controller
Discover in depth how HAProxy integrates with Kubernetes: direct-to-pod architecture, hot update options (DNS, Consul), comparison with NGINX/Traefik, Gat…
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