Engineering organizations that ship fast have Observability as part of their core DNA.

We understand that everyone values a simple and straightforward approach when it comes to setting up schedules. We at Squadcast are fully aware of the difficulties involved in creating an on-call schedule from scratch or migrating it to a new platform. Hence we have come up with a blog to assist you in seamlessly setting up your on-call schedule using Squadcast. Our goal is to provide guidance and support to make the process as effortless as possible for you.

Prometheus is a favored open-source monitoring system that collects, stores, and queries metrics from various sources. In Prometheus, an exporter is a component that collects and exposes metrics in a format Prometheus can scrape. The Prometheus Blackbox Exporter is designed to monitor “black box” systems with internal workings that are not accessible by Prometheus. It sends HTTP, TCP, and ICMP requests to the external systems and measures their response times and statuses.

The SLA definition is - An SLA is a written contract outlining quantifiable service quality standards between a service provider and a client. Typically, it includes response times, uptime, and error reporting.

Understanding Metrics, Logs, Events and Traces - the key pillars of observability and their pros and cons for SRE and DevOps teams.

What's the difference between SREs and Platform Engineers? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

Streaming Aggregation and Recording Rules are two ways to tame High Cardinality. What are they? Why do we need them? How are they different?

Site Reliability Engineering is a process of automating IT infrastructure functions, including system management and application monitoring using software tools. It is used by businesses to guarantee that their software applications are reliable even when they receive frequent upgrades from development teams. SRE allows engineers or operations teams to automate the activities that are traditionally performed by operations teams manually to manage production systems and handle issues.

Everything you need to know about Prometheus Remote Write mechanism and storing metrics in long term storage such as Levitate.