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A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity

August 6, 2018

Aggregating across batch job runs with push_time_seconds

For counting how many times a thing has happened you can use a counter and rate(), but that doesn't work across batch jobs.

 

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July 30, 2018

Prometheus: Up and Running is out

After many months of work, Prometheus: Up&Running is now available for purchase!

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July 23, 2018

Absent Alerting for Scraped Metrics

In the previous post we looked at dealing with when all the targets for a job had disappeared. What if you wanted to alert on specific metrics from one target disappearing?

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July 16, 2018

Absent Alerting for Jobs

Alerting on numbers being too big or small is easy with Prometheus. But what if the numbers go missing?

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July 9, 2018

ICMP Pings with the Blackbox exporter

The Blackbox exporter can perform ICMP probes. Let's see how.

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July 2, 2018

External URLs and path prefixes

In a previous post I looked at setting the external URL. What if the reverse proxy is sending a different path than the user is using?

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June 25, 2018

Using external URLs and proxies with Prometheus

Sometimes users will not access Prometheus's UI directly, instead using another URL. How do you make this work?

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June 18, 2018

Shutting down Prometheus

Shutting down Prometheus properly helps reduce the risk of delays at startup. So how do you do that?

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June 11, 2018

New Features in Prometheus 2.3.0

Prometheus 2.3.0 is now out, following on from 2.2.0 back in March with several fixes and improvements.

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June 4, 2018

Will using Prometheus instrumentation clients lock me in?

Considering using Prometheus, but worried about committing to using our clients?

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