Observability & Incidents

Logs, metrics, traces (OTel), on-call, postmortems, and reliability engineering.

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dev.to > aiflowpm > how-to-rebuild-trust-in-agile-teams-after-a-catastrophic-project-failure-4ijn

How to Rebuild Trust in Agile Teams After a Catastrophic Project Failure

21+ hour, 44+ min ago   (832+ words) Trust takes months to build, seconds to shatter, and relentless courage to repair. Early in my career as a Scrum Master, I watched a high-stakes project completely derail. We had a critical release coming up. The deadline was immovable. Instead…...


dev.to > zuko > building-an-alerting-pipeline-from-scratch-prometheus-alertmanager-and-the-alert-that-actually-3027

Building an Alerting Pipeline from Scratch: Prometheus, Alertmanager, and the Alert That Actually Fired

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (22+ words) Reading about monitoring is one thing. Getting an actual alert to land in your inbox at 2am — well,... Tagged with devops, testing....


hackernoon.com > monitoring-kubernetes-with-prometheus-and-grafana-complete-setup-guide

Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana: Complete Setup Guide

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (782+ words) Kubernetes is dynamic by design. Pods appear and disappear, workloads scale horizontally, nodes become unavailable, and deployments continuously modify the state of the cluster. Prometheus and Grafana form one of the most widely adopted open-source combinations for addressing this challenge....


dev.to > asael_shinder_9f53bdca840 > read-the-postmortems-of-things-you-did-not-break-2295

Read the Postmortems of Things You Did Not Break

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (339+ words) There is a category of learning almost nobody uses on purpose, and it is sitting right there in your company wiki. We treat postmortems as paperwork. The team that had the outage writes it, a few people skim it, it…...


dev.to > techwithhari > why-i-stopped-clicking-create-alert-in-the-cloud-console-55pm

Why I Stopped Clicking "Create Alert" in the Cloud Console

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (247+ words) Every time I set up a new server, I'd go into the cloud console and manually click through the UI to set up alerts "tell me if CPU goes above 80%", "tell me if this server stops responding", that kind of…...


dev.to > volkangunay > we-only-alert-on-a-10-spot-rank-drop-heres-why-1-spot-would-be-worse-2nb9

We only alert on a 10-spot rank drop. Here's why 1 spot would be worse.

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (243+ words) Rank tracking tools love to notify you the instant a number changes. We deliberately don't — our drop alert only fires once an app falls 10 spots or more between two measurements. 10 spots is large enough to almost never be pure noise…...


aithority.com > it-and-devops > cloud > dabble-bets-on-grafana-cloud-and-grafana-assistant-to-cut-incident-response-times

Dabble Bets On Grafana Cloud and Grafana Assistant to Cut Incident Response Times

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (263+ words) Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, announced that Dabble, an Australian-founded social sports betting platform with a growing global footprint, has selected Grafana Cloud as its observability platform....


dev.to > rosebud > how-i-write-postmortems-in-5-minutes-using-ai-and-why-most-sres-are-doing-it-the-hard-way-40g

How I Write Postmortems in 5 Minutes Using AI (And Why Most SREs Are Doing It the Hard Way)

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (769+ words) Originally published on Medium It's 2:51am. The incident is resolved. Error rate is back to zero, the rollback worked, and your on-call pager has finally gone quiet. Now you have to write the postmortem. If you've been in SRE or DevOps…...


aithority.com > it-and-devops > cloud > grafana-labs-crosses-10000-customer-milestone-as-ai-adoption-accelerates-growth-across-the-platform

Grafana Labs Crosses 10,000-Customer Milestone as AI Adoption Accelerates Growth Across the Platform

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (35+ words) Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, announced it has crossed 10,000 customers worldwide and surpassed $600 million in annual recurring revenue, as organizations standardize on open observability for the AI era....