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Stories, guides, and lessons from the world of observability

1979, a nuclear accident and SRE

1979, a nuclear accident and SRE

Deep diving into the 'Normal accident' theory by Charles Perrow, and what it means for SREs

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

OTLP metrics ingestion support in Prometheus

Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics with Prometheus natively

Native support for OpenTelemetry metrics in Prometheus

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

How we tame high cardinality in time series databases: Part 1

How we tame high cardinality in time series databases

Engineering innovation to solve high cardinality with Last9 - a multi-part series

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Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

Swati Modi

Swati Modi

InfluxDB vs. Thanos

InfluxDB vs. Thanos

InfluxDB vs Thanos: Overview, Pros and Cons, and Differences

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

What Site Reliability Engineering needs — A swarm of rogue bees

What Site Reliability Engineering Needs: A Swarm of Bees

If all companies are software companies, all companies need better Observability to understand how performative their software is

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

Prometheus vs. VictoriaMetrics

Prometheus vs. VictoriaMetrics (VM)

Comparing Prometheus vs. VictoriaMetrics (VM) - Scalability, Performance, Integrations

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Nishant Modak

Nishant Modak

Prometheus vs. Cortex

Prometheus vs. Cortex

Comparing Prometheus vs. Cortex - Scalability, Cost, Performance, Known Weaknesses

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Last9

Last9

Take back control of your Monitoring

Take back control of your Monitoring

The control levers that bring monitoring costs and toil back under your control, from my Monitorama 2023 talk, and how Last9 puts them in one platform.

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Nishant Modak

Nishant Modak

Graphite vs Prometheus

Graphite vs Prometheus

Compare Graphite and Prometheus, two leading open-source monitoring solutions.

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki