Prometheus is great when it comes to monitoring and alerting. But the long term storage opportunities are comparatively weak compared to related time series databases (missing data distribution, shard …

ShuttleCloud is a small startup specialized in email and contacts migrations. We developed a reliable migration platform in high availability used by clients like Gmail, Gcontacts and Comcast. For exa …

Kubernetes and Prometheus are still pretty young, but somehow they immediately fell in love when they first met early last year. And now Prometheus has moved into the shiny new CNCF building that Kubernetes has called home for a while. Bjrn Rabenstein explores how the first two projects hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation work together.

Jamie Wilkinson offers a brief overview of SLOs, shares a practical guide to implementing sustainable SLO-based alerting for systems of any size, and outlines the tooling required to supplement the system in the absence of cause-based alerting.

Monitoring only sucks when the cost of maintenance scales proportionally with the size of the system being monitored. Recently, tools have emerged that assist with scaling out monitoring configurations sublinearly with the size of the system. Jamie Wilkinson explores time series-based alerting and offers practical examples that can be employed in your environment today.

Getting Kubernetes up and running is only half the battle. Now you need to get the supporting infrastructure in place. Dan Mennell shares a templated approach to deploying what is needed to get started with source control, CI/CD, and monitoring with Prometheus, along with other things.