2021-09-13
Monitoring Go apps with Otel
Ankit Anand shows how you can monitor your Golang application with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz, a really nice hands-on piece on the topic.
Otel data sources
Via CNCF blog: Understand OpenTelemetry part 3: data sources by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam.
Frontend devs need logs
Via The New Stacl: Roger Winter argues Why Frontend Developers Need Logs Too.
Amazon OpenSearch Service
In Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0 my colleague Channy Yun explains the newest developments around the managed offering. Related: learn about OpenSearch Queries: Query DSL and Beyond from Gedalyah Reback.
Kubernetes monitoring workshop
Michael Friedrich put together a wonderful deep-dive workshop: Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. Check it out and contribute!
SNMP monitoring
SNMP monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic Logstash by my colleague Ahmed ElHaw is an interesting article about an important application area.
Thanos usage options
Prometheus HA with Thanos sidecar or receiver? by Tayyab Jamadar provides a deep-dive into the topic.
Prometheus Conformance
In Why We Created the Prometheus Conformance Program Richard Hartmanm shares a little bit about the motivation and where/when we can learn more.
SLO tooling
If you're into Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and frankly, why wouldn't you be, then check out Sloth and SLO tracker.
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