PinnedHacking your way to Observability — Part 2 : AlertsTaking advantage of metrics by sending notifications via Slack — In my previous post, we deployed Prometheus Operator with the Helm Chart and a set of services to demonstrate how to collect metrics using prom-client and exporters. Don’t forget that the purpose of observability is to infer the status of a system, so for the metrics to serve their purpose…Prometheus7 min readPrometheus7 min read
PinnedHello Terraform CDK!It has been a long time since the initial release of Terraform in 2014, we have seen new providers, changes in the CLI and on the functions as well, but I think we are yet to see one of its biggest improvements, the Cloud Development Kit. …Terraform10 min readTerraform10 min read
May 24, 2021Hacking your way to Observability — Part 3A distributed tracing quick start with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry — Last time, we used Prometheus Alert Manager to configure rules that would send notifications via Slack when triggered. Even though having alerts and notifications it’s great, can metrics help you troubleshoot or explain a problem by themselves?. This is where the problem arises; metrics are good to tell you that…Observability8 min readObservability8 min read
May 3, 2021Hacking your way to Observability — Part 1 : MetricsStarting your journey in observability by gathering metrics with Prometheus — Have you ever seen someone trying to find how to solve an issue and a dozen people watching or suggesting to him/her what to look for as if they were trying to solve a mystery? . …Prometheus9 min readPrometheus9 min read
