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Why Your Loki Metrics Are Disappearing (And How to Fix It)

Why Your Loki Metrics Are Disappearing (And How to Fix It)

Diagnose missing Loki metrics by fixing recording rule gaps, remote write failures, and high-cardinality issues in production setups.

Faiz Shaikh
Faiz Shaikh
Auto-Instrument Your Applications Using OTel Injector

OTel Updates: Auto-Instrument Your Apps with the OTel Injector

Automatically instrument your apps on Linux with the OTel Injector, no code changes, minimal setup, and support for Java, Node.js, Python, and .NET.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
OTel Weaver: Consistent Observability with Semantic Conventions

OTel Updates: Weaver for Consistent Observability with Semantic Conventions

Achieve consistent, reliable observability with OTel Weaver, validate and standardize telemetry using semantic conventions at ingest.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
How Prometheus 3.0 Fixes Resource Attributes for OTel Metrics

OTel Updates: How Prometheus 3.0 Fixes Resource Attributes for OTel Metrics

Prometheus 3.0 supports resource attribute promotion for OpenTelemetry metrics, enabling direct labeling without `target_info` joins.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
How sum_over_time Works in Prometheus

How sum_over_time Works in Prometheus

Understand how sum_over_time() aggregates metrics in Prometheus, handles gaps, and why step size and staleness can affect accuracy.

Faiz Shaikh
Faiz Shaikh
Use Telegraf Without the Prometheus Complexity

Use Telegraf Without the Prometheus Complexity

Collect metrics with Telegraf without running Prometheus. No scraping, no TSDB tuning, just clean, push-based telemetry to your backend.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
Ship Confluent Cloud Observability in Minutes

Ship Confluent Cloud Observability in Minutes

Push metrics into Last9 and start tracking Kafka lag, retries, and throughput in real-time.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
How to Set Up Real User Monitoring

How to Set Up Real User Monitoring

Set up Real User Monitoring (RUM) with safe defaults, proper sampling, and consent handling,without breaking your production code.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
Monitor Nginx with OpenTelemetry Tracing

Monitor Nginx with OpenTelemetry Tracing

Instrument NGINX with OpenTelemetry to capture traces, track latency, and connect upstream and downstream services in a single request flow.

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki