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A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity

December 14, 2020

Prefer without and ignoring

Which of by/without and on/ignoring should you use?

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October 12, 2020

Negative lookahead assertions in PromQL selectors

RE2 doesn't support lookahead, but that doesn't mean you can't do it in another way.

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August 10, 2020

Using the group() aggregator in PromQL

Prometheus 2.20 added a group aggregator. What is it for?

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July 13, 2020

Time metric from the node exporter

The node exporter exposes the current machine time.

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March 23, 2020

Why info-style metrics have a value of 1

You've seen metrics like prometheus_build_info, but why do they have a value of 1?

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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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February 3, 2020

Get thee to a NaNnary

NaN is just a number in Prometheus.

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January 20, 2020

Graphite’s summarize and smartSummarize in PromQL

How do you convert summarizeinto PromQL?

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December 30, 2019

Left joins in PromQL

Just because SQL isn't in the name doesn't mean that you can't do SQL-like joins with PromQL.

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December 9, 2019

PromQL Subqueries and Alignment

Subqueries were added to PromQL a while back, but there's more to this feature than it'd seem.

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