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Commercial APMs: Why They Are Always Overkill for an Indie Hacker
Why commercial Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools are disproportionately costly, especially for solo developers and small teams...
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Technology
Why Cardinality Explosion is Always a Problem?
I examine the problems of cardinality explosion in metric systems, with storage, performance, and cost impacts, using examples from my own experience.
Technology
What Happens When You Don't Set Up Monitoring? A Bitter Lesson from
In my twenty-year career, I've personally experienced how neglected monitoring leads to unexpected costs for systems and businesses. This post explores how.
Tutorials
Are Grafana UI Alerts Insufficient? Alertmanager Installation and Why
Why does Grafana's built-in alerting system fall short? A deep dive into Alertmanager installation, its advantages, and the ideal system architecture.
Career
Prioritizing Monitoring and Alerting: My 3-Step Pragmatic Guide
Striking the right balance between monitoring and alerting in system and application operations has always been challenging. In this post, I'll explain my.
Technology
Traced Logging vs. Metric-Based Monitoring: A Practical Comparison
Should I use Traced Logging or Metric-Based Monitoring when observing my systems? My field experiences reveal the differences and trade-offs of both approaches…
Life
Observability: Metrics or Logs, Which is Truly Enough?
Find the balance between metrics and logs on your system observability journey. In which situations is each more effective? I analyze with my experience.
Technology
High Cardinality Metrics: Does the Benefit Outweigh the Cost?
Examining the impact of high cardinality metrics on system performance, cost analysis, and optimal usage scenarios.
Technology
Agent-Based vs. Agentless Monitoring: Make the Right Choice in 3 Steps
Determine which system monitoring method, agent-based or agentless, is right for you in 3 simple steps. A practical guide based on my experience.
Technology
Metrics and Trace Data: Fundamentals of Understanding System Issues
Mustafa Erbay shares his experiences on the importance, usage, and practical tips for metric and trace data to deeply understand system issues…
Career
Cardinality Explosion: Should Every Detail Really Be Observed? And
What is cardinality explosion in monitoring systems, why does it happen, and how does this situation affect both systems and an engineer's career? Practical...
Technology
Metric Collection: Push vs. Pull Models - When to Use Which?
A deep dive into Push and Pull models for collecting system and application metrics, exploring which is more suitable for different scenarios...
Technology
Metric Cardinality: An Overlooked Performance Burden or a Developer
How does metric cardinality affect system performance? In this guide, we delve deep into overlooked burdens and developer mistakes.
Technology
RED Metrics Design: Service-Oriented or Workflow-Oriented?
Should RED metrics be designed based on services or workflows? This post explores the pros, cons, and best use cases for each approach.
Career
Reducing Pager Fatigue: Why Excessive Alerting Systems Fall Short?
Analyzing pager fatigue and the shortcomings of excessive alerting systems with my operational experience accumulated over the years. Real problems...
Technology
Docker Logs Quietly Killing the Disk: A Log Rotation Story
How Docker logs silently filled up the disk on my VPS, and the log rotation strategies I applied to fix it.
Tutorials
The Prometheus High Cardinality Crisis: A Silent Metric Invasion
A guide to understanding, detecting, and managing the high cardinality crisis in Prometheus. Optimize your metrics to keep system performance and costs under…
Career
Disk Space Saturation: Anatomy of a Silent Production Crisis
Explore the silent crises caused by disk space saturation in production environments, their root causes, and proactive resolution strategies.
Tutorials
Secure Network Device Monitoring with SNMPv3: Auth, Encryption, ACL
A guide to leaving SNMPv2c community strings behind and making network device monitoring secure and operable with SNMPv3 authPriv, views and ACLs.
Technology
Path Selection and Incident Triage with SLA Probes in SD-WAN
Choosing the right path for application classes via active probes that measure latency/jitter/loss; rapid diagnosis during degradation and a controlled…
Tutorials
Designing a Telemetry Pipeline with OpenTelemetry Collector
Treating Collector not just as an agent but as a central telemetry backbone for sampling, redaction, routing and multi-destination delivery.
Tutorials
Enterprise NTP Architecture with Chrony, and Drift Alerting
Chrony settings, firewall recommendations, and drift/loss alarms to design a hierarchical and secure time synchronization.
Tutorials
Multi-Point Service Health Monitoring with Blackbox Exporter
An installation guide that pushes a real reachability signal into Prometheus by running HTTP, TCP, and TLS checks from multiple network locations.
Tutorials
Building a Link Latency Baseline with SmokePing
A SmokePing guide for making latency and jitter behaviour visible across branch, data center, and cloud connections.
Tutorials
Agent Consolidation with Grafana Alloy
A Grafana Alloy based approach for unifying the chaos of node exporter, log agent, and telemetry collector into a single pipeline.
Tutorials
Designing Prometheus Alert Routing
A guide for building an Alertmanager routing model that reduces misdirected alerts and accelerates incident response.
Tutorials
End-to-End Observability Pipeline with OpenTelemetry
An OpenTelemetry-based observability architecture that brings metric, log and trace data into a single standard.
Technology
Observability Stack Design
A practical observability design that brings logs, metrics, and traces together into a single operational model.