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Install Prometheus 3.13 LTS, Node Exporter, and Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04 with localhost-only monitoring ports, SSH-tunneled dashboards, and end-to-end verification.
Deploy Uptime Kuma 2 with Docker Compose on Ubuntu 24.04 using localhost-only port 3001, Caddy HTTPS, monitors, status pages, backups, and safe updates.
Monitor ClickHouse query latency, rows read, memory, parts, merges, mutations, replication, Keeper, disk growth, and ingestion freshness with actionable alerts.
Plan database storage on block volumes for PostgreSQL and MySQL, including layout, capacity headroom, I/O monitoring, backups, and recovery.
Learn Kubernetes monitoring across metrics, logs, Events, and traces, with a practical small-team observability and alerting framework.
Understand ClickHouse architecture for production analytics across ordering keys, ingestion, partitions, TTL, materialized views, replication, and monitoring.
Understand Kafka architecture for small teams across topics, partitions, consumer groups, replication, retention, monitoring, and managed vs self-hosted ownership.
Understand Kafka metrics for broker health, replication, consumer progress, request pressure, and alert design for reliable production event streams.
Learn database monitoring for small teams across performance, connections, slow queries, locks, capacity, replication, backups, restore evidence, tools, and alerts.
Learn database reliability for small teams across monitoring, failover, backups, PITR, recovery testing, ownership, and managed vs self-hosted operations.
Learn how backup monitoring detects failed and stale recovery points, broken chains, storage issues, and restore evidence that no longer meets production recovery objectives.
Design server health checks that trigger the right action. Learn liveness vs readiness, startup probes, health endpoints, synthetic monitoring, alerts, and failure handling.
Use this VPS setup checklist after deployment to configure updates, SSH access, firewall rules, monitoring, backups, DNS, and recovery in the right order.
Learn application observability for small teams: monitoring vs observability, metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry, alerting, cost control, and production architecture.
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