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Sejal Pandey

Sejal pandey works on content and growth at last9, writing about observability, reliability, and sre practices.

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Apache Spark Monitoring: Spark UI, Metrics and Alerts

Apache Spark monitoring guide: what the Spark UI shows, how to keep it after a job ends, finding skew and spill, Prometheus metrics, and alerts.

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Sejal Pandey

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Multi-Cloud Monitoring: How to Watch AWS, Azure and GCP Together

Multi-cloud monitoring guide: why the same metric differs across AWS, Azure and GCP, and how to normalize it with OpenTelemetry into one view.

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Sejal Pandey

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NVIDIA DCGM Exporter: Setup and GPU Metrics Guide

Set up the NVIDIA DCGM Exporter with Docker or Helm, pick the right DCGM metrics, enable profiling counters, map GPUs to Kubernetes pods, and add alerts.

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Sejal Pandey

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Dynatrace Pricing Explained (2026): Rates, DPS and Real Costs

Dynatrace pricing explained: DPS annual commits, the hourly rate card for hosts, pods, logs and RUM, why memory drives Full-Stack cost, and a worked bill.

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Sejal Pandey

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Error Budgets: How to Calculate and Alert on Burn Rate

An error budget is the unreliability an SLO allows. Learn to calculate it, track burn rate, set multiwindow alerts in PromQL and write an error budget policy.

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Sejal Pandey

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Best Observability Tools in 2026: 8 Platforms Compared

A practical comparison of the best observability tools in 2026: Last9, Datadog, Grafana Cloud, New Relic, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, Coralogix and SigNoz.

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Sejal Pandey

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Grafana Cloud Pricing Explained (2026): What Teams Pay

Grafana Cloud pricing broken down: free tier limits, Pro rates for metrics, logs and traces, how active series and DPM are billed, and worked cost examples.

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Sejal Pandey

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AI Agent Observability: What to Trace and What It Catches

AI agent observability means tracing tool calls, reasoning steps, and handoffs, not just tokens and latency. Here's what to instrument and why.

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Sejal Pandey

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Rails Performance Monitoring: What to Watch and Why It Slows Down

How to monitor a Rails application in production: reading Puma's stats endpoint, spotting GC pressure, and finding the query that's actually slow.

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Sejal Pandey

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SRE Automation Tools: What to Automate and Which Tools Help

SRE automation covers four different jobs: runbook automation, self-healing infrastructure, drift detection, and resilience testing.

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Sejal Pandey

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PHP Performance Monitoring: What to Watch and Why It Slows Down

How to monitor a PHP application in production: reading the PHP-FPM status page, checking OPcache health, and finding the request that is actually slow.

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Sejal Pandey

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What Is AIOps? Definition, How It Works, and Real Examples

AIOps explained in plain terms: what it means, how it differs from AI-SRE and MLOps, how it detects problems, and whether a small team needs it.

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Sejal Pandey

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Best AI Observability Tools in 2026: 8 Tools Compared

Eight LLM and AI agent observability platforms compared: what each tracks, pricing and free tiers, self-hosting options, and who each is built for.

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Sejal Pandey

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Cloud Cost Management for Observability: A Practical Guide

Observability spend is outgrowing infrastructure budgets. What drives the cost up, how pricing models work, and a practical framework to manage it.

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Sejal Pandey

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6 Cribl Alternatives Worth Evaluating in 2026

Cribl's credit pricing and setup complexity send teams looking elsewhere. Compare 6 real Cribl competitors and alternatives, for observability and SecOps.

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Sejal Pandey

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Incident Response Automation: A Practical Playbook

A stage-by-stage playbook for automating incident response: what to automate at detection, triage, and remediation, what to deliberately leave manual, and a checklist to run against your current setup.

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Sejal Pandey

Anatomy of an error log line: annotated Nginx, Apache, and Linux syslog examples

Reading Application Error Logs: Nginx, Apache & System Logs

A quick-reference guide to reading Nginx, Apache, and Linux syslog error lines: what each field means, with real annotated examples.

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Sejal Pandey

How SLI, SLO, and SLA connect

SLO vs SLA: What's the Difference?

An SLO is the internal reliability target your team sets. An SLA is the contractual promise you make to a customer. Here's how they differ, with real examples.

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Sejal Pandey

Kubernetes Pods and Nodes: What Sets Them Apart

Kubernetes Pods vs Nodes: What Sets Them Apart

A Kubernetes Node is the machine, a Pod is the smallest thing that runs on it. Here's exactly how they differ, how they relate to clusters, and how each one scales.

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Sejal Pandey