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grafana

Meet Ted Young, OpenTelemetry co-founder and the newest Grafanista

Mar 27, 2025 By Trevor Jones In Grafana
In just a few short years, OpenTelemetry has become the second largest CNCF project behind Kubernetes and is well on its way to becoming an industry standard for collecting and exporting telemetry data. And with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 just around the corner, there’s no one better to talk to about the state of OpenTelemetry than Ted Young. Ted is the co-founder of OpenTelemetry and serves on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee.
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last9

21 PromQL Tricks Every Developer Should Know

Mar 27, 2025 By Preeti Dewani In Last9
So you've got Prometheus up and running, but now you're scratching your head looking at those queries. PromQL (Prometheus Query Language) looks simple on the surface, but it packs some serious power once you know how to wield it. Whether you're debugging production issues at 2 AM or building dashboards that actually tell you something useful, these PromQL tricks will upgrade your monitoring game.
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last9

An Easy and Comprehensive Guide to Prometheus API

Mar 27, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Monitoring is the backbone of any reliable DevOps setup. And if you’re working with monitoring, you’ve likely used Prometheus. This open-source powerhouse has redefined how we track system performance, but are you making the most of its API? Prometheus is the go-to solution for monitoring container-based environments, particularly in Kubernetes. Its pull-based model and flexible query language provide deep visibility into your systems.
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hyperping

Don't Let Downtime Define You: 10 Status Page Templates [2025]

Mar 27, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
In today's always-on world, your website or application is the lifeblood of your business. Downtime isn't just an inconvenience; it's a threat to your reputation, customer loyalty, and bottom line. As we highlighted in our recent article on MTTR, quickly resolving incidents is crucial. But equally important is how you communicate those incidents to your users. That's where status page templates come in.
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site24x7

From failure to fix: Diagnose Kubernetes Node and Pod problems with Site24x7

Mar 27, 2025 By Grace Nalini In Site24x7
Picture a busy Monday morning. You are working on leftover projects from the previous week, and assuming everything is fine with your applications as you had not received support tickets during the weekend. All of a sudden, during the middle of the day, you get a flood of reports from users who complain about slow response in your application and error pages piling up. You and your team are scrambling hard to figure out the issue.
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site24x7

How to get started with error budgets to meet SLOs for improved service reliability

Mar 27, 2025 By Ramkumar Ramaswamy In Site24x7
As modern IT systems grow in complexity, IT operations teams have to work harder to ensure reliability. "What gets measured gets managed" is a management mantra that emphasizes the role of metrics in management. To ensure everything works well, operations teams need service-level objectives (SLOs). This industry term measures how an application meets the agreed-upon quality and reliability standards, serving as a bellwether of good software.
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Kentik

Starlink Enters Transit Market With Community Gateways

Mar 27, 2025 By Doug Madory In Kentik
Starlink moves beyond being strictly a direct-to-consumer service provider with the recent activations of its Community Gateways. In recent months, Starlink has become a transit provider to a small but growing number of service providers in remote parts of the world as its unique and groundbreaking service continues to evolve.
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How JavaScript Execution Can Cause Browser Performance Issues #coding #chromedevtools #programming

Mar 27, 2025 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Decode website loading sequences with Todd Gardner's essential guide to waterfall charts in this Concepts of Web Performance tutorial. Perfect for entry-level web developers struggling with slow websites, this video demystifies those intimidating colored bars you've seen in Chrome DevTools, WebPageTest, and monitoring tools like Request Metrics. Learn to interpret the crucial elements of waterfall charts—from request queuing and waiting times to content downloading phases—all visualized on a timeline measured in milliseconds. Discover how to identify two major performance bottlenecks.
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How to use data source variables in Grafana dashboards

Mar 27, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Data source variables let you change where Grafana looks for data without having to create duplicate dashboards. So for example, if you have multiple different Prometheus databases, you can have one dashboard and use a data source variable to choose which Prometheus that dashboard uses. We'll look at how to set these up in this video. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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