2022-05-02
Shipping logs
In Shipping logs to third-parties with Kinesis Data Firehose and Fluent Bit for Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate, my colleague Darren Lin shows an interesting log routing setup in action.
Promcat
If you’re looking for a resource catalog around Prometheus including setup guides, alerts, and recording rules then check out what Sysdig launched: Promcat.
Spring boot o11y
Adam Quan shares how to Set up and observe a Spring Boot application with Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
Prometheus good practices
In Robust Perception — Reliable Insights Nick Gibbon has shared a list of helpful Prometheus-related posts by the one and only Brian Brazil.
Trace-based testing
Check out Ken Hamric’s post on Introducing Tracetest - Trace-based Testing with OpenTelemetry, and maybe give the tool a try as well?
Python profiling
Bloomberg open sources Memray, a new memory profiler for Python code. Exciting times!
Continuous profiling 101
Learn from Uchechukwu Obasi: What is continuous profiling?, a well-written overview on the topic.
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