monitoring

Going open-source in monitoring, part V: Collecting errors from production using Sentry

Series of posts about migration from commercial monitoring systems to opensource. Replace NewRelic with Prometheus

Sergey Nuzhdin

5 minute read

In this part of the series, I’m going to add Sentry to the monitoring stack. For those who do not know, Sentry is an open-source cross-platform crash reporting and aggregation platform written in Python. I know about it for several years now, since the time it supported only a few languages. A lot has changed since my last use of it: new domain, new languages, new integrations. Today it has integrations with most of the modern languages and frameworks like Elixir, React, React-Native, Go.

Going open-source in monitoring, part III: 10 most useful Grafana dashboards to monitor Kubernetes and services

Series of posts about migration from commercial monitoring systems to opensource. Replace NewRelic with Prometheus

Sergey Nuzhdin

3 minute read

This post is one of a series of posts about monitoring of infrastructure and services. Other posts in the series: Intro Deploying Prometheus and Grafana to Kubernetes Creating the first dashboard in Grafana 10 most useful Grafana dashboards to monitor Kubernetes and services (this article) Configuring alerts in Prometheus and Grafana Collecting errors from production using Sentry Making sense of logs with ELK stack Replacing commercial APM monitoring SLA, SLO, SLI and other useful abstractions There are dozens of ready dashboards available on grafana.

Going open-source in monitoring, part II: Creating the first dashboard in Grafana

Series of posts about migration from commercial monitoring systems to opensource. Replace NewRelic with Prometheus

Sergey Nuzhdin

6 minute read

This post is one of a series of posts about monitoring of infrastructure and services. Other posts in the series: Intro Deploying Prometheus and Grafana to Kubernetes Creating the first dashboard in Grafana (this article) 10 most useful Grafana dashboards to monitor Kubernetes and services Configuring alerts in Prometheus and Grafana Collecting errors from production using Sentry Making sense of logs with ELK stack Replacing commercial APM monitoring SLA, SLO, SLI and other useful abstractions Having grafana.

Going open-source in monitoring, part I: Deploying Prometheus and Grafana to Kubernetes

Series of posts about migration from commercial monitoring systems to opensource. Replace NewRelic with Prometheus

Sergey Nuzhdin

8 minute read

This post is one of a series of posts about monitoring of infrastructure and services. Other posts in the series: Intro Deploying Prometheus and Grafana to Kubernetes (this article) Creating the first dashboard in Grafana 10 most useful Grafana dashboards to monitor Kubernetes and services Configuring alerts in Prometheus and Grafana Collecting errors from production using Sentry Making sense of logs with ELK stack Replacing commercial APM monitoring SLA, SLO, SLI and other useful abstractions I’ve been keeping my eye on Prometheus for some time.

Going open-source in monitoring, part 0: Intro

Series of posts about migration from commercial monitoring systems to opensource.

Sergey Nuzhdin

3 minute read

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Intro (this article) Deploy and basic configuration of Prometheus Creating the first dashboard in Grafana 10 most useful Grafana dashboards to monitor Kubernetes and services Configuring alerts in Prometheus and Grafana Collecting errors from production using Sentry Making sense of logs with ELK stack Replacing commercial APM monitoring SLA, SLO, SLI and other useful abstractions Monitoring of the infrastructure is an essential part of any product. But it’s not uncommon for companies to postpone monitoring for the later period.