observability Archives

Debug Kubernetes Like a Pro: Real-Time Observability with Inspektor Gadget

September 20, 2026

Stop debugging Kubernetes in the dark. Learn how to use Inspektor Gadget and eBPF to trace system calls, network traffic, and file access in real-time with minimal overhead.

DevOps

Unified Kubernetes Observability: A Hands-on Guide to Grafana Alloy

September 9, 2026

Tired of managing Promtail, Node Exporter, and OTel collectors separately? Learn how to unify your Kubernetes telemetry with Grafana Alloy and simplify your observability stack.

DevOps

Distributed Tracing with Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry: Cut Storage Costs with Trace Sampling

September 8, 2026

Distributed tracing is the missing piece when logs alone can't explain why your microservice requests are slow. This guide walks through setting up Grafana Tempo with OpenTelemetry and tail-based sampling — so you keep every trace that matters while keeping storage costs under control.

DevOps

Stop Over-Provisioning for Logs: Deploying OpenObserve on Docker

August 8, 2026

Ditch the resource-heavy ELK stack. Learn how to deploy OpenObserve on Docker to manage logs, metrics, and traces with incredible speed and minimal RAM usage.

Database

Database Observability: Connecting SQL Queries to Application Traces with OpenTelemetry

July 27, 2026

Bridge the gap between application traces and database logs. This guide explains how to use OpenTelemetry and SQLCommenter to inject trace metadata into SQL queries for faster debugging.

Networking

Active Network Service Monitoring with Prometheus Blackbox Exporter: HTTP, TCP, DNS, and ICMP Without Agents

June 13, 2026

Prometheus Blackbox Exporter lets you actively monitor HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, DNS records, and ICMP connectivity from the outside — no agents or code changes required. This guide covers setup, all four probe types, Prometheus relabeling configuration, and practical production tips from six months of real-world usage.

DevOps

Mastering Prometheus Alertmanager: Routing, Grouping, Inhibition, and Smart Alert Delivery to Telegram and PagerDuty

June 5, 2026

Prometheus Alertmanager's routing, grouping, and inhibition features are what separate functional monitoring from production-grade alerting. This guide walks through configuring a structured alertmanager.yml with team-based routing, noise-reducing grouping, inhibition rules to suppress alert storms, and real integrations with Telegram and PagerDuty.

DevOps

Continuous Profiling with Grafana Pyroscope on Kubernetes: Find CPU and Memory Bottlenecks in Production

May 22, 2026

Grafana Pyroscope brings continuous profiling to Kubernetes, letting you capture CPU and memory flame graphs from production apps around the clock. This guide walks through deploying Pyroscope via Helm, scraping Go apps in pull mode, instrumenting Python with the SDK, and reading flame graphs to find real bottlenecks — no guesswork required.

Self-Hosting Langfuse: A Hands-On Guide to LLM Observability

May 22, 2026

Ditch the guesswork in AI development. This production-tested guide shows you how to self-host Langfuse for full LLM observability, tracking everything from RAG latency to token costs.

DevOps

Vector in Production: How We Slashed Logging Overhead by 90%

May 13, 2026

Logstash was costing us thousands in RAM. We switched to Vector and never looked back. A technical deep-dive into high-performance logging with Rust.