In this blog post, I will talk about how I have set up our server on Google Cloud, installed Valheim, and added some metrics to Grafana Cloud. Valheim is a brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. At Fullstaq where I work, we wanted to …

Often "uptime" is an important factor in KPI's and management is a great fan of "my uptime is 99.9%". This blog post is about why the Wikipedia entry on uptime is irrelevant for modern systems in 2021 and how you can leverage metrics to a useful meaning. Let's start with a quote from Wikipedia on …

I've spent some time working with various "observability" tools. I thought to share my experiences of building such a setup in an Enterprise environment. In no way, I want to profile myself as a huge expert on this subject. Yet I believe sharing knowledge and experiences is something everyone should do. …

Ok. What? Why? You can skip my intro and go straight to the "Technical solution" section. Yes, let's start with that. AIX was born before I was. 1986. How is that relevant you might ask? Well, it happens people still use this, and AIX is actually somewhat pretty active used in 1000's of computer labs. As with …