9h ago · 6 min read · tl;dr — Prometheus is great at scraping and querying, but it was never designed to be your long-term storage. Once my TSDB grew to 311 GB and the disk hit 87%, I needed a way out that didn't mean buyi
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4d ago · 8 min read · Let me start with a question. How many alert rules do you have right now that you honestly trust? If the answer made you pause, you're not alone. Most teams I talk to are in the same situation: they h
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5d ago · 5 min read · Monitoring is often misunderstood as setting up a dashboard, watching graphs move, and feeling that the system is now "observed". My experience in the SIBANGKU project changed that view a little. A da
Join discussionMay 30 · 27 min read · Kubernetes Custom Resources (CR), CRD & Custom Controller ☸️ 📌 Why Do We Need Custom Resources in Kubernetes? Kubernetes already provides built-in resources like: Pod Deployment Service Config
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May 25 · 8 min read · Visualizing metrics, queue pressure, worker throughput, and real-time system behavior while scaling an event ingestion architecture Introduction In the previous phase of this project, I transformed a
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May 21 · 4 min read · Yesterday, we shined a light on our cluster metrics using Prometheus and Grafana. We learned if something is broken. But when an API throws a 500 Internal Server Error, metrics won't tell you the exac
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May 17 · 4 min read · In a monolithic application, tracking down a bug usually means logging into one server and running tail -f var/log/app.log. But in a Kubernetes cluster with hundreds of ephemeral pods constantly movin
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