#observability

2 articles tagged observability.

9 Aug 20264 min read

Self-hosted observability: metrics and alerts without the SaaS bill

SaaS observability bills scale with pod count, not with incidents. The VictoriaMetrics + Grafana stack we run in every cluster we operate, and the alerting rule that matters more than the dashboard.

kubernetesdevopsobservabilitymonitoring

7 Aug 20265 min read

Right-sizing Kubernetes: requests and limits without the guesswork

Overprovision and you pay for idle cores; underprovision and the OOM killer visits at month-end close. How we set requests and limits from real usage percentiles instead of round numbers that sounded right.

kubernetesdevopsobservability