SRSiddhant Raiinsiddhantt.hashnode.dev·8h ago · 8 min readThe 200 OK That Wasn't: Catching a Hidden Failure with SigNozI was staring at a perfectly green 200 OK, and I knew the request had failed. Not failed in the way an HTTP client understands failure. The upstream answered on time, the connection stayed open, and t00
MBMadhav Bhasininblog.madhav.dev·17h ago · 10 min readObservability and Scaling: Monitoring Event Lag and Handling FailureA distributed event-driven pipeline fails differently from a monolith. When a single service goes down, you get an error page. When an event-driven pipeline degrades, it's often invisible at first — m02J
ITIngero Teaminingero.hashnode.dev·7h ago · 6 min readRead-Only Kernel Telemetry as MCP Tools: A Design NoteDesign constraints (left) and the seven existing tool calls (right) for a read-only MCP server over an eBPF kernel trace database. TL;DR An MCP server over kernel telemetry has a specific shape: read-00
JAJoshi Annuinannujoshi.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 6 min readBuilding My First AI Observability Dashboard with SigNozIntroduction When I started learning about AI and building applications, my main goal was simple — I wanted to create something that actually works. Seeing my application process requests, complete ta00
SGSergio González Téllezinevankhandev.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 6 min readBeyond SQL: How a Data Science Capstone Changed the Way I Think About Metrics, State, and Observability1. Introduction When I enrolled in the Learn SQL Basics for Data Science Specialization from the University of California, Davis, my goal was straightforward: learn SQL and strengthen my data analysis00
MYMeenu Yadavinmeenuy.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 7 min readStop Guessing Why Your App Broke — An Introduction to Observability with SigNozIt's been a while since I last wrote here more than two years to be exact. But I've been deep in observability tooling lately, and SigNoz is the thing that finally pulled me back to write. So, let's e00
Ddualdustintokenair.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 3 min readThe cheapest model call can produce the most expensive agent runI used to think agent cost tracking started with token usage. Record the model, multiply input and output tokens by the provider price, then compare routes. That works for reconciling a bill. It break00
ARAravind Rino11y-lab.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 5 min readObservability Without the Invoice: An SRE's Open Source APM ExperimentI spent years as a Dynatrace power user — building Golden Signal dashboards, SLOs, and alerts at scale via Terraform for a Vehicle Commerce platform, and before that, running Dynatrace for a high-traf00
VSvikas sharmainmy-v.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 4 min readWhy We're Building Yet Another API Monitoring Tool (And Why Pricing Models Are Broken)A few months ago, my team and I went looking for an API monitoring tool. We didn't need anything exotic—just something to tell us when our API is slow, when it's erroring, and to give us enough contex00
RRitabritainto-cilium-from-scratch.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 2 min read30 Day Cilium Learning JourneyWhen it comes to observability in Azure, I've mostly worked with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, KQL, Alerts, and Network Watcher. These tools have helped me monitor workloads, inv00
