#monitoring

The question gets asked on r/node every few months, on r/selfhosted every few weeks, and on Hacker...

For the past few months, I've been spending most of my free time building Telemetry Tracker. It...

Every vendor now slaps 'AIOps' on the box. Most of them just added a dashboard that says 'anomaly...

Every 837 You Send Needs a 999 Back: How the HIPAA Acknowledgment Loop Works There is a...

I started this project expecting to explore observability. I ended up discovering how much easier...

How I built an audience-weighted, quorum-based multi-region health-check aggregator for a video CDN

4:00 PM on a Friday, a ticket came in from our highest-paying customer: "None of our staff are...

The "Obvious" Math That's Wrong Engineer A: "Datadog is $15K/month. Prometheus is free. We...

I recently sat in a war room where three senior developers were arguing about whose microservice was...

The most expensive thing you can do with an AI agent is watch it. Not audit it. Not review its...

My laptop is a Windows ARM64 machine. Most self-hosted observability tooling assumes you're on Linux,...

Prometheus Was Built for Metrics. We're Asking It to Explain Systems. For nearly a decade,...