Comprehensive Monitoring for Kubernetes Clusters
Introduction to KubeStateMetrics
Kube-state-metrics is a service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of various objects like deployments, nodes, and pods. It transforms these object states into metrics that can be consumed by Prometheus.
Key capabilities of kube-state-metrics include:
Collecting node ...
Posted on Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:09:52 +0000 by foreverhex
Building Dashboards and Configuring Alerts in Grafana: A Practical Guide
Grafana Overview
Grafana is an open-source visualization and monitoring platform that enables users to create interactive dashboards and analyze real-time data. The platform supports multiple data sources including Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and MySQL, allowing data to be aggregated and displayed through customizable panels ...
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:20:58 +0000 by Terminator
Integrating Prometheus with Java Applications: A Practical Implementation Guide
Prometheus has become the de facto standard for metrics collection in modern Java-based microservices. Its pull-based architecture, dimnesional data model, and expressive query language make it ideal for observability in dynamic, containerized environments.
Core Architecture Overview
Prometheus operates by periodically scraping HTTP endpoints e ...
Posted on Sat, 23 May 2026 22:19:43 +0000 by VooDooRT
Implementing Application Metrics Monitoring with InfluxDB and Grafana
Metrics Monitoring Overview
The application monitoring system combines Metrics.NET, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Metrics.NET collects application metrics through code instrumentation, stores data in InfluxDB (version 1.3.1), and visualizes metrics using Grafana (version 4.0.1).
Instrumentation Methods
Add Metrics.dll reference to your project and con ...
Posted on Thu, 14 May 2026 20:30:17 +0000 by ahmedkl
Observability Stack Integration for OpenTenBase
Containerized Runtime Provisioning
Deploying a telemetry architecture for OpenTenBase requires a stable container orchestration environment. Initialize the Docker engine on a CentOS-based host by removing legacy installations, configuring repository sources, and activating the daemon.
sudo yum remove -y docker-*
sudo yum install -y yum-utils
su ...
Posted on Wed, 13 May 2026 23:32:35 +0000 by TechGuru
Visualizing Server Traffic Data and Calculating 95th Percentile with Zabbix, MySQL, and Grafana
Prerequisites
A database instance (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server) to serve as Grafana's data source
A working Grafana installation (follow official guides for setup)
Navicat for database management
PyCharm or another Python IDE for data processing
Step 1: Extract Raw Data from Zabbix
Connect to your Zabbix MySQL database using Navicat, the ...
Posted on Sat, 09 May 2026 23:56:37 +0000 by no3dfx