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Multiple Kubernetes cluster monitoring with Prometheus

Aug 4, 2021 · 7 min read · Monitoring Prometheus Thanos ·

If you have multiple Kubernetes clusters, there are a few ways to implement monitoring with Prometheus. Generally speaking, when using the Prometheus operator, it will assume it's running in its current cluster. Now we still have two variations. Because are we talking about "querying data over multiple …

Monthly reports with Grafana and Prometheus

Jul 16, 2021 · 4 min read · Grafana Prometheus ·

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Monthly reports with Grafana and Prometheus

How to query Prometheus for monthly data in Grafana When searching online, there is a lot of information to find. Yet a lot of the queries and solutions might be really overcomplicated or even out-dated due to new features in both Prometheus and Grafana. For example, I've came across this query which is pretty high in …

Let's talk about uptime for the year 2021

Jan 21, 2021 · 14 min read · Prometheus Grafana ·

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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 …

Getting started with Prometheus and Thanos

Jul 29, 2020 · 9 min read · Thanos Prometheus Grafana ·

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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. …

AIX metrics in Prometheus with N(J)MON

May 6, 2020 · 7 min read · AIX Grafana NJMON NMON Prometheus Telegraf ·

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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 …