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• vLLM Metrics — What to Chart and What to Alert On

  The series vLLM exposes answer questions GPU metrics cannot: how many requests are running versus waiting right now, how full the KV cache is, how long until the first token. This post reads the official vLLM documentati

  2026-08-12 · 7 min read #gpu#kubernetes#vllm#prometheus#observability

• DCGM Exporter — GPU Utilization Is Not What You Think It Is

  DCGM Exporter is the standard path for exposing GPU telemetry in Prometheus format, but the utilization-style metric that ends up on nearly every dashboard does not measure what people expect. This post reads the default

  2026-08-12 · 9 min read #gpu#kubernetes#dcgm#prometheus#observability

• GPU Serving SLOs and Alert Design — What to Promise and What to Page On

  Putting an SLO on a GPU inference service starts with deciding which metric represents the user experience. Time to first token and throughput eat each other, so setting a target on only one guarantees the other collapse

  2026-08-12 · 7 min read #gpu#kubernetes#slo#alerting#prometheus

• Designing Prometheus Metrics That Answer Questions — Choosing Types, Cardinality Budgets, and the Traps in rate and Quantiles

  More metrics is not better — a metric earns its keep only by answering a question. This post starts by laying out which questions counters, gauges, and histograms each answer, and which calculations become impossible in

  2026-08-02 · 17 min read #observability#prometheus#promql#metrics#cardinality

• Why Average Response Time Lies — How to Read p50, p95, and p99 Properly

  A service whose average response time is 80ms can still keep users waiting three seconds, and that happens all the time. This post explains what the average hides in a long-tail distribution, which question each of p50,

  2026-07-26 · 11 min read #observability#percentile#prometheus#histogram#slo

• Alerting That Does Not Wake You at 3AM — Symptom-Based Alerts and Burn Rate in Practice

  On-call collapses not because there are too few alerts but because there are far too many. This post starts with the mechanism by which alert fatigue makes you miss real incidents, then covers the principle of paging onl

  2026-07-26 · 13 min read #observability#alerting#slo#error-budget#prometheus

• Native Histograms Are Stable Now — So Why Haven't You Turned Them On Yet

  Prometheus native histograms showed up as an experimental feature in v2.40 (November 2022), went stable in 3.8.0 (December 2025), and 3.13, released July 1, 2026, is the first LTS to ship the feature in stable state. The

  2026-07-16 · 17 min read #prometheus#observability#native-histograms#metrics#monitoring

• Operator Observability — Metrics, Events, Logging, and SLOs ♪ Listenable

  A deep dive into observability for Kubebuilder-based Operators across metrics, events, logging, tracing, status/conditions, and SLOs. From the meaning of controller-runtime default metrics to adding custom metrics, wirin

  2026-06-15 · 19 min read #kubernetes#operator#observability#prometheus#controller-runtime

• Hubble and ClusterMesh — Cilium Observability and Multi-Cluster Operations

  Covers the architecture of Hubble, the observability layer of Cilium, with practical CLI queries, Prometheus metrics, and long-term flow log retention, then walks through configuring ClusterMesh for multi-cluster service

  2026-06-13 · 13 min read #cilium#hubble#clustermesh#observability#multi-cluster

• Keycloak Observability — Metrics, Audit Logs, and Event-Driven Monitoring

  A comprehensive guide to Keycloak observability: the event system and metrics endpoint, shipping events externally with the EventListener SPI, building Prometheus and Grafana dashboards, OpenTelemetry tracing, anomaly de

  2026-06-12 · 13 min read #keycloak#observability#monitoring#prometheus#security

• Time Series Databases 2026 Deep Dive - InfluxDB 3 · TimescaleDB · QuestDB · ClickHouse · Prometheus · VictoriaMetrics · Grafana Mimir ♪ Listenable

  A full-stack 2026 dissection of time-series databases. InfluxDB 3.0 Rust + Apache Arrow + DataFusion + Parquet rewrite, TimescaleDB 2.18 hypertables, QuestDB 8.x SIMD ingest, ClickHouse 25.x MergeTree, Prometheus 3.0 and

  2026-05-16 · 26 min read #time-series-database#influxdb#timescaledb#questdb#clickhouse

• Observability 2026 Complete Guide — OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana Stack (LGTM+Beyla), Honeycomb, Prometheus, Jaeger, eBPF & SLO Deep Dive ♪ Listenable

  A thorough look at the 2026 production observability stack on top of the OpenTelemetry standard. Covers SaaS vendors (Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk, Honeycomb, Coralogix, Logz.io, Chronosphere), open-source stack

  2026-05-16 · 18 min read #observability#opentelemetry#datadog#grafana#honeycomb

• Kubestronaut Path 2026 Deep-Dive - CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA, KCSA and the CNCF Certification Ladder (Prometheus, Istio, Cilium, OpenTelemetry, Argo) ♪ Listenable

  A thorough 2026 guide to the Kubestronaut program and the CNCF certification ladder. We cover the five core exams (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA, KCSA) in depth — domains, exam format, passing scores, pass rates, Killer Shell moc

  2026-05-16 · 20 min read #kubestronaut#cncf#kubernetes#cka#ckad

• Time-Series Databases in 2026 — TimescaleDB / InfluxDB 3 / QuestDB / ClickHouse / VictoriaMetrics Deep Dive

  The 2026 time-series database map — TimescaleDB (the 1 Postgres extension), InfluxDB 3 (reborn on Apache DataFusion + Arrow), QuestDB (SQL plus fast ingest), ClickHouse (a column store with dominant analytical performanc

  2026-05-15 · 18 min read #time-series#database#tsdb#timescaledb#influxdb

• Observability Complete Guide — Metric, Log, Trace, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, SLO (Season 2 Ep 9, 2025)

  "If you cannot observe it, you cannot operate it." Observability is the superset of logging and monitoring — the ability to infer unknown unknowns from system state alone. This post covers the Metric, Log, Trace three-pi

  2026-04-15 · 11 min read #observability#opentelemetry#prometheus#grafana#loki

• WebSocket Real-Time Communication & Observability/Monitoring Complete Guide

  From WebSocket/SSE/gRPC real-time communication principles to building observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

  2026-04-12 · 13 min read #devops#websocket#realtime#observability#monitoring

• Observability & Monitoring Complete Guide 2025: Logging, Metrics, Tracing, Alerting Strategy

  Everything about Observability! Three Pillars (Logs/Metrics/Traces), OpenTelemetry, Prometheus+Grafana, ELK Stack, Distributed Tracing (Jaeger/Tempo), Alerting Strategy (PagerDuty/OpsGenie), SLO/SLI/SLA, Cost Optimizatio

  2026-03-25 · 18 min read #observability#monitoring#logging#distributed-tracing#metrics

• Observability Complete Guide 2025: Making Systems Transparent with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry ♪ Listenable

  Master the three pillars of observability (Metrics/Logs/Traces)! Prometheus queries (PromQL), Grafana dashboards, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, Jaeger distributed tracing, ELK/Loki logging, alerting strategies, SLI/SLO/

  2026-03-23 · 16 min read #observability#monitoring#prometheus#grafana#opentelemetry

• [Prometheus] PromQL Engine Internals: From Parser to Execution Engine

  Source code level analysis of the PromQL engine internals. Covers the lexer, parser, AST structure, query evaluation engine for instant and range queries, step evaluation, lookback delta, subquery implementation, and mem

  2026-03-20 · 9 min read #prometheus#observability#open-source-internals

• [Prometheus] TSDB Internals: WAL, Chunks, Blocks, Compaction

  Source code level analysis of Prometheus TSDB internals. Deep dive into WAL segment structure, Head Block memSeries, chunk encoding (XOR, delta-of-delta), block structure, compaction algorithms, and posting list indexing

  2026-03-20 · 10 min read #prometheus#observability#open-source-internals