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A comprehensive guide to instrument Java applications using OpenTelemetry libraries

A comprehensive guide to instrument Golang applications using OpenTelemetry libraries for metrics and traces.

Common Prometheus pitfalls and ways to handle them

What are OpenTelemetry, and OpenCensus and how to migrate from OpenCensus to OpenTelemetry

A comprehensive guide to downsampling metrics data in Prometheus with alternate robust solutions

A comprehensive guide to relabeling strategies in Prometheus

Understanding limitations and challenges scaling Prometheus in modern cloud-native environments. Here we delve into long-term retention, downsampling, high availability, and other challenges.

Comparison and differences between Prometheus and ELK

A guide on what is Thanos and how it can be used with Prometheus

Talk on Golang Concurrency Masterclass by Swati Modi at Gophercon 2023

Piyush Verma's talk at GopherCon India 2022 on Do More with Your Metrics with Last9 and Levitate

Report from SRE Day 2023, where Piyush Verma - CTO Last9, gave a talk on Unwiring High Cardinality

A deep dive comparison between Thanos and VictoriaMetrics: Performance and Differences

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

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

Everything you want to know about Prometheus and Thanos, their differences, and how they can work together.

A comprehensive guide on understanding high cardinality Prometheus metrics, proven ways to find high cardinality metrics and manage them.

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

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

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

This article covers questions such as what are MTTF, MTBF, MTTD, and MTTR, their differences, how to adopt them, and their use cases.

SRECon is a conference hosted by USENIX and is focused on site reliability, distributed systems, and systems engineering at scale. A Recap of SRECon Americas 2023.

Everything you need to know about Mean Time Between Incidents (MTBI) and how it can help Site Reliability Engineers

SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs—what’s the difference? For DevOps folks, understanding these nuances is key. Here's a quick guide to each term.

An in-depth look at several service mesh offerings and comparison based on their features, licensing and pricing, architecture, and user experience.

Prometheus is a popular open-source monitoring system. In this blog, we'll cover the basics of Prometheus monitoring, including its architecture, key features, and alternatives.

What are the differences between Self-managed Prometheus vs Managed prometheus? How do you choose what works for you?

This article will go over what Prometheus exporters are, how to properly find and utilize prebuilt exporters, and tips, examples, and considerations when building your own exporters.

What is Alert Fatigue and techniques to reduce it

A guide to set practical Service Level Objectives (SLOs) & Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for your Site Reliability Engineering practices.

A guide to help you implement Prometheus and Grafana in your Kubernetes cluster