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Our latency alert summed away the bucket label and never returned a value

Our latency alert summed away the bucket label and never returned a value

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Self-hosting side projects: principles and silent failures

Self-hosting side projects: principles and silent failures

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Right-size Kubernetes CPU and memory requests from 7 days of Prometheus

Right-size Kubernetes CPU and memory requests from 7 days of Prometheus

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Our request graph showed thousands of calls a second because gunicorn had four counters

Our request graph showed thousands of calls a second because gunicorn had four counters

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10 Prometheus Alerts That Wake Up Admins at Night, and What to Do With Each

10 Prometheus Alerts That Wake Up Admins at Night, and What to Do With Each

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Prometheus alerting rules: for, keep_firing_for and promtool tests in CI

Prometheus alerting rules: for, keep_firing_for and promtool tests in CI

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MetricShell: How We Tried to Solve the Metrics Problem for Short-Lived Containers

MetricShell: How We Tried to Solve the Metrics Problem for Short-Lived Containers

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Prometheus Sizing for Homelab: RAM, Retention, and a 2Gi Limit

Prometheus Sizing for Homelab: RAM, Retention, and a 2Gi Limit

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I installed my stack on a machine with leftovers. Three green signals stayed green.

I installed my stack on a machine with leftovers. Three green signals stayed green.

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Predict Kubernetes OOM kills 30 minutes ahead with one PromQL alert

Predict Kubernetes OOM kills 30 minutes ahead with one PromQL alert

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Cloud Bill Out of Control: Building a Reliable Budget Alert with OpenCost and Prometheus

Cloud Bill Out of Control: Building a Reliable Budget Alert with OpenCost and Prometheus

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Our restart alert resolved itself after ten minutes and the pod kept crashing until Monday

Our restart alert resolved itself after ten minutes and the pod kept crashing until Monday

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Labels vs annotations: how one YAML indent made Prometheus scrape Pyroscope twice

Labels vs annotations: how one YAML indent made Prometheus scrape Pyroscope twice

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Our CPU dashboard counted every pod twice and we added twelve nodes to match

Our CPU dashboard counted every pod twice and we added twelve nodes to match

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One metric label can cost 648 GB of memory

One metric label can cost 648 GB of memory

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