Containers
Kubernetes: architecture and components (control plane, nodes, objects)
Understand the Kubernetes architecture: API server, etcd, scheduler, controller manager, kubelet, kube-proxy, container runtime, basic objects and the rec…
Guides & insights
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Observability
Grafana Alloy components reference
A complete reference guide to all the components available in Grafana Alloy, organized by category (Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.) to help you bui…
Observability
Database Observability: tracking MySQL and PostgreSQL queries and plans with Alloy
Alloy's database_observability.mysql and .postgres components: collectors, execution plans, locks, sending to Loki and Mimir, required grants.
Observability
OpenSearch: concepts, architecture and differences with Elasticsearch
Understanding OpenSearch: project origin, license, differences with Elasticsearch, indexes, shards, replicas, cluster manager, cluster states and componen…
Cloud computing
Observability on AWS: CloudWatch, X-Ray, Application Signals, ADOT, Managed Prometheus and Grafana
A complete overview of observability on AWS: CloudWatch components (metrics, logs, alarms, Application Signals, RUM, Synthetics, Insights), X-Ray traces, …
Observability
SigNoz: architecture and installation
SigNoz components (OpenTelemetry collector, ClickHouse, query service, interface, alerts), installation with Docker Compose and Helm, and collecting Kuber…
Observability
Distributed tracing with Jaeger: concepts and architecture
The concepts of distributed tracing (trace, span, context, propagation) and Jaeger: its history, its v2 architecture built on the OpenTelemetry Collector …
Observability
VictoriaMetrics: why and how, from single node to cluster
What VictoriaMetrics brings compared with Prometheus alone, its components (single-node, vmagent, vmalert, vminsert/vmselect/vmstorage cluster) and its st…
Observability
Vector: sources, transforms, sinks and topology
Vector concepts (sources, transforms, sinks), YAML configuration, common components, disk buffers and operational tools (validate, top, tap).
Observability
Grafana Pyroscope architecture and deployment
Pyroscope components (distributor, ingester, querier, store-gateway, compactor), object storage, monolithic and microservices modes, configuration and ret…
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
Deploying and operating Mimir on Kubernetes
Install Mimir with the mimir-distributed Helm chart, size the components, monitor Mimir with the official mixin and diagnose the most frequent errors.
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