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Key Pillars of Observability - Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces

Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces: Observability Essentials

Understanding Metrics, Logs, Events and Traces - the key pillars of observability and their pros and cons for SRE and DevOps teams.

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki

SRE vs Platform Engineering

What's the difference between SREs and Platform Engineers? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

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Streaming Aggregation vs Recording Rules in Site Reliability Engineering

Streaming Aggregation vs Recording Rules

Streaming Aggregation and Recording Rules are two ways to tame High Cardinality. What are they? Why do we need them? How are they different?

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Comparing Prometheus and Datadog

Prometheus vs Datadog

Comparison between Prometheus and Datadog - two of the most popular monitoring tools in the market today

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Using a Golang package in Python using Gopy

Using a Golang package in Python using Gopy

Using Golang package in Python using Gopy: A simple way to leverage the power of Golang packages in Python applications.

Arjun Mahishi
Arjun Mahishi
What's the difference between SREs and DevOps?

SRE vs DevOps: Definition, Key Differences, and Similarities

What's the difference between SREs and DevOps professionals? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

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High Cardinality explosions are real-world problems that affect SREs on a daily basis

High Cardinality for Dummies: ELI5

High Cardinality woes are far & frequent in today's modern cloud-native environment. What does it mean, & why is it such a pressing problem?

Mohan Dutt Parashar
Mohan Dutt Parashar

Filtering Metrics by Labels in OpenTelemetry Collector

How to filter metrics by labels using OpenTelemetry Collector

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Who should define Reliability —  Engineering, or Product

Who should define Reliability — Engineering, or Product?

Whoever owns Reliability should define its parameters. But who owns the Reliability of a Product? Engineering? Product Management? Or the Customer success team?

Piyush Verma
Piyush Verma