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PostgreSQL is a powerful and widely used relational database, but like any system, it can suffer from performance bottlenecks. Without proper management, slow queries, inefficient indexing, and resource contention can lead to sluggish performance. In this blog, we will explore the top 10 PostgreSQL performance issues and how to fix them.

When we launched Grafana Drilldown, our queryless experience for quicker, easier insights into your telemetry, we focused first on Prometheus because it was—and is—such a great solution for storing time series data. But as the industry continued to evolve, a different open source project began to emerge as another standard for modern observability: OpenTelemetry.

If you’ve been using Honeycomb for a bit, you know that Calculated Fields (otherwise known as derived columns) are a powerful way to transform your events to a format that’s easier to query and understand. However, they use a lisp-esque language that can be difficult to read and a pain to write. If you dislike making Calculated Fields and want something a little easier, here’s a generative AI prompt that can generate them from natural language.

It’s 2 a.m. Alerts flood your dashboard. Transactions are failing, but logs offer no clues. Your SRE team is drowning in noise—while users struggle with outages. As Java workloads shift to microservices, Kubernetes, and the cloud, this problem is compounded. Exceptions cascade across tiers, triggering blame games while the root cause remains buried under fragmented logs and scattered alerts. Legacy monitoring tools overwhelm SREs with raw data but fail to connect the dots.

SSL/TLS certificates are critical for secure communication, and keeping track of their expiration is essential. Until now, Let’s Encrypt has sent email notifications when certificates were about to expire. However, as of June 2025, Let’s Encrypt will discontinue these expiration emails. This change could lead to expired certificates going unnoticed, potentially causing security risks and downtime.

I have a not-so-secret suspicion that the dream of everyone working with technology is the Enterprise computer from Star Trek. Controlling shields, communications, engines, and everything else from a single place—and with voice commands, no less. “One button to rule them all,” as Sauron might whisper. But until that utopia becomes a reality, at least we can implement a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in our organization’s technology stack.