Observability-OSS vs Paid vs Managed OSS
The Reliability industry needs a managed, non-vendor lock-in answer to spiraling costs, high cardinality and the toil of managing a tsdb.
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Scaling Site Reliability Engineering Teams the Right Way
Most SRE teams eventually reach a point in their existence where they appear unable to meet all the demands placed upon them. This is when these teams may need to scale. However, it's important to understand that increasing team capacity is not the same as increasing the number of people on the team. Let's unpack what scaling a team is all about, what are the indicators, what are steps you can take, and how you know if you're done.
SRE vs. DevOps vs. Platform Engineering: What's The Difference?
SRE, DevOps and Platform Engineering are important concepts in today's world of software development. There are dedicated teams to manage these areas, each with a unique primary focus, set of responsibilities, tools and metrics used to gauge their performance requirements. This article explains SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering, including similarities and differences, and, most importantly, how these teams help streamline modern software development, delivery, and maintenance processes.
Learnings integrating jmxtrans
JMX metrics give solid insights into the workings of your application. Integrating them with Levitate (our time series data warehosue) required us to jump some hoops with vmagent.
2023 SRE Report
Now in its fifth year, The SRE Report has become the trusted source of trends and insights for reliability-as-a-feature practices. This year in partnership with Blameless, the report contains special contributions from Adrian Cockcroft and Steve McGhee and highlights findings from a global community of reliability practitioners, including SREs, managers, architects, and executives. As ever, we found some familiar trends and some thought-provoking anti-patterns.
Install Prometheus on Kubernetes: Tutorial & Examples
As one of the most popular open-source Kubernetes monitoring solutions, Prometheus leverages a multidimensional data model of time-stamped metric data and labels. The platform uses a pull-based architecture to collect metrics from various targets. It stores the metrics in a time-series database and provides the powerful PromQL query language for efficient analysis and data visualization.
DevOps vs. SRE
What is the difference between DevOps and SRE? In Short, DevOps should be an all-encompassing term for connecting the development team and operations team. However, DevOps tends to focus more on Deployment, whereas SRE focuses on Reliability.
What is SRE?
SRE stands for Site Reliability Engineering and focuses on making sure your systems are always up and running. SRE teams are very similar to DevOps But have a few noticeable differences.
Incident Response Guide
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a critical discipline that focuses on ensuring the continuous availability and performance of modern systems and applications. One of the most vital aspects of SRE is incident response, a structured process for identifying, assessing, and resolving system incidents that can lead to downtime, revenue loss, and brand reputation damage.
High Cardinality? No Problem! Stream Aggregation FTW
High cardinality in time series data is challenging to manage. But it is necessary to unlock meaningful answers. Learn how streaming aggregations can rein in high cardinality using Levitate.