Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes: From Install to Alerts That Actually Fire

Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes: From Install to Alerts That Actually Fire

By KP  |  TZoneLabs  |  DevOps & Cloud Engineering The kube-prometheus-stack Helm chart gets you Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager running in about ten minutes. What it doesn’t do is scrape your own application’s metrics, write alerting rules that fire on the right thing, or send those alerts anywhere a human will see them. That part … Read more

During a Production Failure, the Real Issue Is Often Not Where the Error Is Showing

During a Production Failure, the Real Issue Is Often Not Where the Error Is Showing

By KP  |  TZoneLabs  |  DevOps & Cloud Engineering Here is something nobody tells you when you start in DevOps: the error message is almost never the problem. It is just the messenger. A pod crashes — you blame the application. An API times out — you blame the network. A deployment fails — you … Read more