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A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity

December 21, 2020

Policy is for configuration, not metric names

Metric names are part of a time series's identity, so shouldn't include information unrelated to identity.

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May 4, 2020

Or in relabelling

How do you allow for the keep relabel action halting relabelling for things not kept?

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February 10, 2020

Testing SSH of hosts from Consul

We've previously looked at scraping services from consul and ssh checks. How can we combine those?

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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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December 11, 2017

Why are Prometheus histograms cumulative?

Have you ever wondered why the buckets in histograms are not just counters of events that fall into each bucket?

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August 21, 2017

Relabelling can discard targets, timeseries and alerts

When relabelling is suggested for selecting targets with service discovery there's sometimes a misunderstanding that relabelling can only change labels. That's not the case.

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July 17, 2017

High Availability Prometheus Alerting and Notification

Prometheus is architected for reliability of alerting, how do you set it up?

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June 5, 2017

Extracting labels from legacy metric names

When metrics come from another system they often don't have labels. metric_relabel_configs offers one way around that.

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May 29, 2017

What’s in a __name__?

You may have noticed that most PromQL functions and operators remove the metric name in their result. Let's look at why.

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April 3, 2017

relabel_configs vs metric_relabel_configs

We've looked at the full Life of a Label. Let's focus on one of the most common confusions around relabelling.

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