Speed. I.. am.. Speed.

“One winner, 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast. A little brekie could be good for me….”

My quest for speed lead to using 1TB of data every day…

A Lesson in Occam’s Razor: Configuring Mimir Ruler with Grafana

Occam’s Razor posits “Of two competing theories, the simpler explanation is to be preferred.” I believe my high school biology teacher taught the “KISS” method (Keep It Simple, Stupid) to convey a similar principle. As I was trying to get alerts set up in Mimir using the Grafana UI, I came across an issue that… Continue reading A Lesson in Occam’s Razor: Configuring Mimir Ruler with Grafana

Kubernetes Observability, Part 5 – Using Mimir for long-term metric storage

This post is part of a series on observability in Kubernetes clusters: Part 1 – Collecting Logs with Loki Part 2 – Collecting Metrics with Prometheus Part 3 – Dashboards with Grafana Part 4 – Using Linkerd for Service Observability Part 5 – Using Mimir for long-term metric storage (this post) For anyone who actually… Continue reading Kubernetes Observability, Part 5 – Using Mimir for long-term metric storage

Getting Synology SNMP data into Prometheus

With my new cameras installed, I have been spending a lot more time in the Diskstation Manager (DSM). I always forget how much actually goes on within the Synology, and I am reminded of that every time I open the Resource Monitor. At some point, I started to wonder whether or not I could get… Continue reading Getting Synology SNMP data into Prometheus

Kubernetes Observability, Part 3 – Dashboards with Grafana

This post is part of a series on observability in Kubernetes clusters: Part 1 – Collecting Logs with Loki Part 2 – Collecting Metrics with Prometheus Part 3 – Dashboards with Grafana (this post) Part 4 – Using Linkerd for Service Observability Part 5 – Using Mimir for long-term metric storage What good is Loki’s… Continue reading Kubernetes Observability, Part 3 – Dashboards with Grafana

Kubernetes Observability, Part 2 – Collecting Metrics with Prometheus

This post is part of a series on observability in Kubernetes clusters: Part 1 – Collecting Logs with Loki Part 2 – Collecting Metrics with Prometheus (this post)Part 3 – Building Grafana DashboardsPart 4 – Using Linkerd for Service ObservabilityPart 5 – Using Mimir for long-term metric storage “Prometheus” appears in many Kubernetes blogs the… Continue reading Kubernetes Observability, Part 2 – Collecting Metrics with Prometheus

Kubernetes Observability, Part 1 – Collecting Logs with Loki

This post is part of a series on observability in Kubernetes clusters: Part 1 – Collecting Logs with Loki (this post) Part 2 – Collecting Metrics with Prometheus Part 3 – Dashboards with Grafana Part 4 – Using Linkerd for Service Observability Part 5 – Using Mimir for long-term metric storage I have been spending… Continue reading Kubernetes Observability, Part 1 – Collecting Logs with Loki