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A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity

August 24, 2020

Failing a scrape with the Prometheus Go client

As previously mentioned partial failure is hard to deal with.

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March 16, 2020

Prometheus Middleware for Gorilla Mux

Your HTTP router is usually the best place to measure your application latency.

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February 24, 2020

Regex Selectors are a Smell

Have you ever found yourself having to keep on updating and tweaking certain regexes in PromQL?

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December 2, 2019

Target labels, not metric name prefixes

Services are not distinguished by their metric names in Prometheus.

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September 30, 2019

How does a Prometheus Histogram work?

We looked previously at the counter, gauge, and summary, how does the Prometheus histogram work?

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March 25, 2019

How does a Prometheus Summary work?

We looked previously at the counter and gauge, how does the Prometheus summary work?

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October 29, 2018

How many metrics should an application return?

While each application is different, a rough idea of how many metric there should be would be useful.

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January 15, 2018

Instrumenting a Ruby on Rails Application with Prometheus

In this blogpost we'll run you through a quick 'hello world' example instrumenting a Rails application with the Prometheus ruby client.

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November 13, 2017

Are increasing timestamps Counters or Gauges?

Every now and then someone asks what metric type a increasing timestamp should be. Let's take a look.

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August 7, 2017

Setting a Prometheus Counter

We're often asked how to call set() on a Counter. So how do you do that?

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