A technical guide on integrating Azure Application Insights into an Angular app, covering installation, configuration, and error tracking.
Discusses the appropriate cost for an observability stack, suggesting a rule of thumb of 20-30% of infrastructure spend.
A critique of static dashboards for debugging, arguing they encourage pattern-matching over systematic problem-solving in software engineering.
Explains why Prometheus is fundamentally a monitoring system, not just a time-series database, and clarifies its design and query behavior.
A cheat sheet covering fundamental Prometheus concepts including metrics, labels, time series, and the scraping process.
A guide to learning PromQL by setting up a controlled Prometheus playground environment to test queries and understand core concepts.
A technical guide on setting up Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a ClickHouse database server, including installation and configuration steps.
Explains the importance of automated alerts in IT operations, detailing a cycle for identifying symptoms, creating triggers, and improving incident response.
A guide to visualizing network latency using ping_exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana for monitoring internet and device health.
A guide to Prometheus's aggregation functions like avg_over_time and sum_over_time for analyzing time series data, with pseudocode examples.
A curated list of innovative, engineering-focused tech companies based in New York City, highlighting their products and technical challenges.
A guide to using Kubernetes Metrics Server for resource monitoring and autoscaling, with practical deployment and verification steps.
A guide to setting up Prometheus and Grafana to monitor system, GPU, and Dask metrics for RAPIDS workloads.
A technical guide on using Grafana and Kibana for monitoring Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instances, part of a larger series on Azure Arc Data Services.
A guide to implementing and configuring health checks in ASP.NET Core applications, including setting up a dashboard to monitor multiple services.
A guide to using Azure Network Watcher's Connection Monitor tool to track and troubleshoot VM network connections, latency, and availability.
A critique of traditional 'war room' monitoring centers, arguing they are ineffective and harmful compared to automated observability and developer ownership.
A discussion on defining a software team's 'critical path' by focusing on business-critical processes that directly impact revenue and customer experience.
A guide to best practices for monitoring, maintaining, and managing machine learning models and data pipelines in a production environment.
Explains how to monitor serverless scheduler performance using AWS CloudWatch Custom Metrics and Insights, with code examples.
