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A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity

August 2, 2016

One agent to rule them all

Another not uncommon question we get about Prometheus is as to why we don't have a single per-machine agent that handles all the collection, and instead have one exporter per application. Doesn't that make it harder to manage?

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July 25, 2016

Target labels are for life, not just for Christmas

How should you choose the labels to put on your Prometheus monitoring targets? Let's take a look.

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July 18, 2016

New Features in Prometheus 1.0.0

After almost 4 years of development, Prometheus has reached 1.0. Hot on the heels of 0.20.0, this release brings new features and more importantly guarantees.

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July 14, 2016

Monitoring without Consensus

When designing a monitoring system and the datastore that goes with it, it can be tempting to go straight for a clustered highly consistent approach. But is that the best approach?

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July 6, 2016

Finding Consul services to monitor with Prometheus

One of the service discovery methods Prometheus supports is Consul. Let's look at how to use it.

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July 1, 2016

How to Give a Tech Talk

Since starting Robust Perception a year ago I've given 20+ tech talks at various meetups and conferences across the world. I'd like to share some tips around the practicalities of speaking that I've learned along the way.

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June 21, 2016

Analysing Prometheus Memory Usage

Ever wondered how Prometheus is using its memory? Let's find out!

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June 16, 2016

New Features in Prometheus 0.20.0

Just 4 weeks after 0.19.0 was released, Prometheus 0.20.0 is out. This is a smaller release than usual, but with some breaking changes you need to be aware of.

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June 9, 2016

Using HipChat with the Alertmanager

Today let's look at how to integrate HipChat with the Prometheus Alertmanager.

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June 2, 2016

Prometheus Security: Authentication, Authorization and Encryption

It's a frequently asked question as to how to do various security related features with Prometheus. Let's take a deeper look at why we chose the approach we did.

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