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Oct 14, 2026Our dashboard counted every failed refund except the first one on each pod
In July our finance team reconciled a week of refunds against the payment provider and found three...
Oct 14, 20262 min read1 reactions0 comments
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Oct 13, 2026Maintenance on our staging cluster muted the alert for our public website
On a Tuesday night in July our public website returned errors for thirty five minutes. The external...
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Oct 9, 2026Observabilidad con OpenTelemetry en MACH: Trazas, Metricas y Logs Unificados
La observabilidad es la capacidad de entender el estado interno de un sistema a partir de sus salidas...
Oct 9, 20265 min read0 reactions0 comments
Building AgentOps for Gemini Agents with Grafana, Tempo, and Prometheus
In Part 5, I added OpenTelemetry tracing to the AI Search Journey Lab. That changed the way I could...
Oct 10, 20269 min read3 reactions0 comments
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Oct 8, 2026Building a Metered GPU Sandbox: Infrastructure and Isolation
Building a metered GPU environment is essential for modern AI multi-tenancy. Hardware...
Oct 8, 20261 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Oct 12, 2026Every deploy told our autoscaler that traffic had gone up forty times
For four months every deploy of our search API scaled it from fourteen pods to its maximum of sixty...
Oct 12, 20262 min read1 reactions0 comments
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Oct 5, 2026Comparing Prometheus Pull and Push API Custom Metrics for Small SaaS Node.js
Short answer: start with a push-style metrics API when a small Node.js team needs to judge a flagged...
Oct 5, 20266 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Oct 8, 2026Beginner SaaS Metrics Dashboard — A Practical Prometheus Alternative Without Kubernetes
TL;DR: For a small property-management SaaS, start with a hosted API that accepts application-emitted...
Oct 8, 20268 min read0 reactions1 comments
See who's attacking your server in Grafana — fail2ban metrics with Prometheus
Most people set up fail2ban and forget about it. It's running, it's banning IPs, but you have no ...
Oct 3, 20262 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Oct 2, 2026Our error graph went blank every time we zoomed in on the outage
During a payments incident in August I had our error rate panel on the big screen, showing the last...
Oct 2, 20262 min read1 reactions0 comments
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Oct 2, 2026Balancing Simplicity and Operational Needs: Choosing the Right Monitoring Solution for Small Go Services in Production
Introduction Monitoring small Go services in production is a delicate balancing act. On...
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Oct 13, 2026My AI agent kept hallucinating metric names, so I built it a Prometheus MCP server
If you've pointed an AI agent at a live incident, you've seen the failure mode: it invents a...
Oct 13, 20262 min read2 reactions6 comments