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Levitate - Last9’s managed TSDB is now available on the AWS Marketplace
Levitate - Last9's managed 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
Prathamesh Sonpatki
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
Prathamesh Sonpatki