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Prometheus Recording Rules: A Developer's Guide to Query Optimization
This guide breaks down how recording rules can help, with simple tips to improve performance and manage complex data.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
OpenTelemetry Collector: The Complete Guide
This guide explains the key aspects of the OpenTelemetry Collector, including its features, use cases, and practical tips for managing telemetry data effectively.
Prathamesh Sonpatki, Anjali Udasi
Adding Cluster Labels to Kubernetes Metrics
A definitive guide on adding cluster label to all Kubernetes metrics
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Identify Root Spans in Otel Collector
How to identify root spans in OpenTelemetry Collector using filter and transform processors
Prathamesh Sonpatki
What is Prometheus Remote Write
Discover Prometheus Remote Write: a powerful feature for scaling your monitoring infrastructure. Learn how it works, its benefits, and best practices for implementation in cloud-native environments.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Golang Logging: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers
Our blog covers practical insights into Golang logging, including how to use the log package, popular third-party libraries, and tips for structured logging
Prathamesh Sonpatki, Preeti Dewani
Developer's Guide to Installing OpenTelemetry Collector
Learn how to install and configure the OpenTelemetry Collector for enhanced observability. This guide covers Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux installations with step-by-step instructions and configuration examples.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Top 10 Platform Engineering Tools in 2024
Check out these 10 tools that are making a real difference in how teams build, manage, and scale their platforms in 2024.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
PromCon 2024 — Day 2
Catch up on Day 2 of PromCon 2024. Read about the key talks and takeaways from the second day of this exciting event.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
PromCon 2024 — Day 1
Get a quick overview of Day 1 at PromCon 2024, which featured significant announcements on Prometheus 3.0 and OpenTelemetry compatibility
Prathamesh Sonpatki
PromQL Cheat Sheet: Must-Know PromQL Queries
This cheat sheet provides practical guidance for diagnosing issues and understanding trends.
Prathamesh Sonpatki, Anjali Udasi
Microservices Monitoring with the RED Method: A Developer's Guide
This blog introduces the RED method—an approach that simplifies microservices monitoring by honing in on requests, errors, and latency.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
kube-state-metrics: Your Complete Guide to Simplifying Kubernetes Observability
This guide provides an in-depth look at its setup and usage, helping you monitor and manage your Kubernetes clusters more efficiently.
Prathamesh Sonpatki, Anjali Udasi
Implementing Hot Reload for OpenTelemetry Collector: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn to enable hot reload for the OpenTelemetry Collector to update configurations on the fly, improving your observability system's agility.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
OpenTelemetry Filelog Receiver: Collecting Logs from Kubernetes
Learn to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot log collection from various sources including syslog and application logs. Discover advanced parser operator techniques for robust observability.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Top Splunk Alternatives for 2024: A Comprehensive Guide
Explore Splunk alternatives, including ELK, Last9 Levitate, Graylog, Datadog, and more. Compare features, pricing, and scalability for log management and observability supporting Docker, microservices, kubernetes
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Convert OpenTelemetry Traces to Metrics using SpanMetrics Connector
What if your have already implemented tracing but lacks robust metrics capabilities? Enter SpanConnector: a tool that bridges this gap by converting trace data into actionable metrics. This post details the workings of SpanConnector, providing a guide on its configuration and implementation.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Whitespace in OTLP headers and OpenTelemetry Python SDK
How to handle whitespaces in the OTLP Headers with Python Otel SDK
Prathamesh Sonpatki
How we reduced monitoring costs and deprecated Thanos for Replit
Winning Replit over by taming High Cardinality data and deprecating Thanos
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Cricket Scale e01 — Ashutosh Agrawal
Unpacking "Cricket Scale" with the person behind the scenes at JioCinema
Prathamesh Sonpatki
A checklist to choose a monitoring system
A detailed checklist of points you should consider before choosing a monitoring system
Prathamesh Sonpatki
The unresolved cost of High Cardinality
Fulfill all your food delivery orders this December 31st by taming High Cardinality data with Levitate 😉
Prathamesh Sonpatki
SaaS Monitoring with Levitate
How Levitate solves today's challenges of B2B SaaS monitoring, including noisy neighbors by unlocking per-tenant observability
Prathamesh Sonpatki
OpenTelemetry vs OpenTracing: What's the Difference?
OpenTracing focuses solely on distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry extends the scope to include metrics and logs. With OpenTelemetry, you can take a unified approach to collecting and analyzing metrics, traces, and logs to gain a more complete understanding of your system's behavior and performance
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Levitate - Last9’s managed TSDB is now available on the AWS Marketplace
Levitate - Last9's managed Prometheus Compatible TSDB is available on AWS Marketplace
Prathamesh Sonpatki
PromQL Macros in Levitate
Define PromQL Macros to standardize complex PromQL queries in Levitate
Prathamesh Sonpatki
GCP Managed Service For Prometheus vs. Levitate
A detailed comparison of Levitate and Google Managed Prometheus - Cost, Scale and Ease of Use
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics with Prometheus natively
Native support for OpenTelemetry metrics in Prometheus
Prathamesh Sonpatki
InfluxDB vs. Thanos
InfluxDB vs Thanos: Overview, Pros and Cons, and Differences
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Graphite vs Prometheus
Compare Graphite and Prometheus, two leading open-source monitoring solutions.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
QCon New York 2023 Recap
Recap of QCon New York 2023 Conference
Prathamesh Sonpatki
What is High Cardinality
Overview of what is high cardinality in the context of monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Understanding Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces - Key Pillars of Observability
Understanding Metrics, Logs, Events and Traces - the key pillars of observability and their pros and cons for SRE and DevOps teams.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Filtering Metrics by Labels in OpenTelemetry Collector
How to filter metrics by labels using OpenTelemetry Collector
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Interesting talks on Observability from Fosdem 2023
A recap of the talks from the Observability and Monitoring dev room at Fosdem 2023.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
A practical guide for implementing SLO
How to set Service Level Objectives with 3 steps guide
Prathamesh Sonpatki, Saurabh Hirani
The difference between DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering
In reliability engineering, three concepts keep getting talked about - DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering. How do they differ?
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Introduction to DORA Metrics
DORA metrics, what they are, why they are important, and best practices for measuring them.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
How to Improve On-Call Experience!
Better practices and tools for management of on-call practices
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide
The ins and outs of conducting an effective postmortem. Ready templates and examples from leading organizations around the world!
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Deployment Readiness Checklists
A ready checklist of a comprehensive list of steps and activities involved in the deployment of your application.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Monorepos - The Good, Bad, and Ugly
A monorepo is a single version control repository that holds all the code, configuration files, and components required for your project (including services like search) and it’s how most projects start. However, as a project grows, there is debate as to whether the project's code should be split into multiple repositories. In many cases, monorepos are still useful since they are very effective at managing projects with a lot of individual components. They also ensure that anyone working on a p
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Strace – A Hidden Superpower
As with any operating system, it’s not uncommon to encounter issues while running Linux and associated applications. This is especially true while using closed-source programs since granular code inspection isn’t possible.
Akshat Goyal, Prathamesh Sonpatki
Rescuing a SPAghetti React project
I gave a talk at react.geekle.us [https://react.geekle.us] today about improving reliability of our React app. Here are slides of that talk. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is transcript of the talk. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all, my name is Prathamesh Sonpatki. I work at Last9 [https://last9.io] building a world class operational intelligence platform for SREs. The Last9 p
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One year at Last9
I completed one year at Last9 today. When I joined Last9 on April 20, 2020, last year, I was unsure how it would pan out. I only knew Nishant and Piyush - founders of Last9 from the Pune tech community. But I had never worked with them before. I was also unsure about the product Last9 was building. I had never worked in the SRE domain. I didn't know anything about the problems the SREs of the programming world face. I was also a Rails developer, having worked primarily on Ruby on Rails for 6-7
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