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The life of an L1 engineer … receiving all the tickets, providing all the IT services, and interacting with all the stakeholders. Tickets, like requests for access to an application or system, account unlocks, onboarding and offboarding employees, and more are here to stay.
In this post, we will go through the process of configuring and installing Graphite on an Ubuntu machine. What is Graphite Monitoring? In short; Graphite stores, collects, and visualizes time-series data in real time. It provides operations teams with instrumentation, allowing for visibility on varying levels of granularity concerning the behavior and mannerisms of the system. This leads to error detection, resolution, and continuous improvement. Graphite is composed of the following components.
This article will focus on the popular monitoring tool Prometheus, and how to use PromQL. Prometheus uses Golang and allows simultaneous monitoring of many services and systems. In order to enable better monitoring of these multi-component systems, Prometheus has strong built-in data storage and tagging functionalities. To use PromQL to query these metrics you need to understand the architecture of data storage in Prometheus, and how the metric naming and tagging works.
