Observability

1 tutorials · 5 guides

Tutorials

Install Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04

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.

Apr 6, 202619 min read

PrometheusGrafanaNode Exporter

Guides

For: Developers and small teams defining measurable reliability targets for production applications

SLOs for Small Cloud Applications: A Practical Reliability Framework

Practical SLO guide for small teams: choose SLIs, set reliability targets, calculate error budgets, use burn rate, and connect reliability to release decisions.

Sep 22, 202612 min read

SLOSLIReliability

For: Developers and small teams operating event-driven functions in production

Operating Serverless Functions in Production: Security, Observability & Recovery

Production serverless operations guide covering triggers, scoped bindings, retries, observability, spend controls, revisions, rollback, and incident recovery.

Sep 22, 202613 min read

ServerlessFunctionsSecurity

For: Developers and platform teams designing Kubernetes monitoring, logging, alerts, and application observability.

Kubernetes Monitoring: Metrics, Logs, Events, and Traces

Learn Kubernetes monitoring across metrics, logs, Events, and traces, with a practical small-team observability and alerting framework.

Aug 21, 202617 min read

KubernetesMonitoringObservability

For: Developers, SaaS teams, administrators, and MSPs deciding which operational, security, and accountable events to record and retain

Application Logs vs Audit Logs: What to Store and Why

Compare application logs and audit logs, including event fields, integrity, retention, sensitive-data controls, storage, incident response, and customer-facing audit history.

May 21, 202614 min read

LoggingAudit LogsObservability

For: Developers, founders, and small platform teams building practical production monitoring and observability without overengineering the stack

Application Observability for Small Teams: Metrics, Logs, and Traces

Learn application observability for small teams: monitoring vs observability, metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry, alerting, cost control, and production architecture.

Apr 7, 202616 min read

ObservabilityMonitoringOpenTelemetry

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