Last9 engineering

Learn how to extract and analyze account-level CDN metrics from Akamai logs using Last9 for real-time insights and better customer tracking.

Last9’s Telemetry Warehouse now supports Logs and Traces, offering a unified view for high cardinality observability to simplify monitoring and troubleshooting.

The software monitoring world is broken because of a TSDB. We deserve a TSDW

A wishlist of things that need to change in the world of software monitoring

Dissecting the RCA of Alerting - Reliability, Correlations, Actionability

A short history of software monitoring, from the 00s. What has changed? Why are things so arcane?

If you want to bring down your monitoring costs, you need to shake up a decision paralysis in engineering

Fulfill all your food delivery orders this December 31st by taming High Cardinality data with Levitate 😉

What is a Time Series Data Warehouse? How does it help in your monitoring journey? How does it differ from a Time Series Database? That and more

Use Levitate's powerful change events to track success of canary rollouts via ArgoCD

How to monitor serverless async jobs from Google Cloud Functions with Prometheus Pushgateway and Levitate using the push model

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 simple reckoner on how to restart a Kubernetes pod with kubectl

Levitate - Last9's managed Prometheus Compatible TSDB is available on AWS Marketplace

Define PromQL Macros to standardize complex PromQL queries in Levitate

A detailed comparison of Levitate and Google Managed Prometheus - Cost, Scale and Ease of Use

Observability is being built by engineers for engineers. In reality, o11y is for all.

What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?

Using 'Sharding' to tame High Cardinality data for Levitate - Our Time Series Data Warehouse

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

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

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

Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse

Engineering organizations that ship fast have Observability as part of their core DNA.

Using Golang package in Python using Gopy: A simple way to leverage the power of Golang packages in Python applications.

Whoever owns Reliability should define its parameters. But who owns the Reliability of a Product? Engineering? Product Management? Or the Customer success team?

The Reliability industry needs a managed, non-vendor lock-in answer to spiraling costs, high cardinality and the toil of managing a tsdb

JMX metrics give solid insights into the workings of your application. Integrating them with Levitate (our time series data warehosue) required us to jump some hoops with vmagent.

The current tech winter reveals a hard truth: spending on internal tools for tech infrastructure is bloated—and this isn't just a passing cycle.

How does a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer plan for "Cricket scale"? How do you warm systems' about to witness 30+ million concurrent users?

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

From the trenches at Games24x7 — Sanjay, on how Reliability engineering should drive core business metrics

No tool can magically offer you 99.999s. Observability is largely about the basics. And basics are boring. But, boring is hard. Boring is battle tested.

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

How you communicate helps build your 9s. In the world of Site Reliability Engineering, this is crucial. How do you do it?

In reliability engineering, three concepts keep getting talked about - DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering. How do they differ?

Learn about how to use, extend and auto-generate Stringer tool of Golang

Deep dive into how to improve the performance of Prometheus Remote Write at Scale based on real-life experiences

How does one ‘detect change’ in a complex infrastructure, so you don’t lose out on critical revenues — A short SRE story

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

At Last9, we auto-delete Slack DMs after 2 days. This pushes teams to improve documentation, reduce tribal knowledge, and own accountability.

What's the difference between Static Threshold vs Dynamic Threshold Alerting? Do you really know when and how to use each threshold type?

5 meetings. 1 month. Subhash and his team’s velocity on decision-making, moving fast, and radical candor, are a breath of fresh air in the Indian startup ecosystem.

A simple guide to crunch numbers for understanding overall HTTP content length metrics.

Practical advice to choose an effective SLI.

Learn everything about the advantages of EC2, it's use cases and how to optimize EC2 further.

A well-thought-out approach to SRE, which will help site reliability engineers and software engineers develop and maintain a useful, consistent, and effective SRE strategy for their products!

Quick primer into microservices architecture and the importance of tracking dependencies

You can either love running or hate running, but you will definitely love this analogy - take a fresh look at SLOs!

Practical tips for rescuing a SPAghetti React JS project. With confidence and a shared mental model, we made the codebase reliable and easier to manage.