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15 articles tagged observability.

April 15, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

DevOps Metrics That Matter

Most DevOps dashboards track the wrong things. Learn which metrics actually predict engineering performance: DORA metrics, SLOs, and the metrics that drive.

DevOps
metrics
dora
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April 13, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Cilium Service Mesh Kubernetes

Cilium replaces kube-proxy and sidecar service meshes with eBPF. Learn how Cilium handles networking, observability, and security in Kubernetes.

cilium
ebpf
kubernetes
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April 6, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

OpenTelemetry Getting Started Guide

OpenTelemetry is the standard for observability instrumentation. Learn how to add traces, metrics, and logs to your applications with OTel SDKs.

opentelemetry
observability
Tracing
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March 28, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Istio Service Mesh Beginner Guide

Istio adds mTLS, traffic management, and observability to your Kubernetes services without code changes. Learn the core concepts, installation, and practical.

istio
service-mesh
kubernetes
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March 19, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Prometheus Monitoring Beginner Guide

Get started with Prometheus monitoring. Metrics collection, PromQL queries, Grafana dashboards, and alert configuration step by step.

Prometheus
Monitoring
Grafana
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March 18, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Grafana Loki Log Aggregation Guide

Grafana Loki indexes log metadata instead of full text, making it cost-effective for Kubernetes log aggregation. Learn how to deploy Loki, query with LogQL.

loki
Grafana
logging
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March 14, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Linkerd Lightweight Service Mesh

Linkerd is the lightest Kubernetes service mesh with automatic mTLS, golden metrics, and zero-config retries. Learn how Linkerd compares to Istio and when its.

linkerd
service-mesh
kubernetes
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March 5, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Infrastructure Monitoring Stack

Build a complete monitoring stack. Prometheus for metrics, Grafana for dashboards, Loki for logs, and Alertmanager for alerting.

Monitoring
observability
Grafana
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March 4, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Grafana Tempo Distributed Tracing

Grafana Tempo stores distributed traces at scale with object storage. Learn how Tempo compares to Jaeger, how to deploy it on Kubernetes, and how to correlate.

grafana-tempo
distributed-tracing
observability
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March 2, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Thanos Long-Term Prometheus Storage

Thanos extends Prometheus with unlimited retention, global querying across clusters, and downsampling. Learn how to deploy Thanos Sidecar and Store Gateway.

thanos
Prometheus
Monitoring
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February 21, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

SRE Golden Signals Monitoring

Implement SRE golden signals. Latency, traffic, errors, and saturation dashboards with Prometheus queries and Grafana visualizations.

SRE
Monitoring
Golden Signals
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February 19, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Grafana Dashboard Best Practices

Build effective Grafana dashboards for monitoring. Layout patterns, template variables, alert integration, and dashboard-as-code.

Grafana
Monitoring
Dashboards
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February 13, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Grafana Alloy OpenTelemetry Collector

Grafana Alloy is a programmable OpenTelemetry collector that replaces Prometheus Agent, Grafana Agent, and OTel Collector. Learn how to collect metrics, logs.

grafana-alloy
opentelemetry
observability
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January 29, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Observability vs Monitoring Explained

The three pillars of observability. Metrics, logs, and distributed traces with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger.

observability
Monitoring
logging
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January 26, 2026·Luca Berton·DevOps

Grafana Mimir Scalable Metrics Store

Grafana Mimir stores Prometheus metrics at massive scale using object storage. Learn how Mimir compares to Thanos and Cortex, and how to deploy it.

grafana-mimir
Prometheus
metrics
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