This article visually dissects Prometheus, explaining its architecture, core features, data collection methods, exporter role, PromQL query language, and alerting workflow, while contrasting it with ELK and highlighting practical configuration examples for real‑world monitoring.
This article presents a detailed, end‑to‑end case study of how Yanhuang Data leveraged the Honghu data‑analysis platform to build a complete Nginx operations‑management solution, covering data ingestion, parsing, modeling, visualization, alerting, third‑party integration, and best‑practice recommendations.
This comprehensive guide introduces Prometheus as an open‑source monitoring solution, covering metric exposition, scraping, storage, PromQL queries, custom exporters in Go, dynamic configuration reloads, Grafana dashboards, and Alertmanager alerting with practical code examples.
This guide explains why monitoring systems need self‑monitoring, how to leverage their own /metrics endpoints for internal health checks, and how to supplement them with a lightweight external monitor using catpaw plugins and FlashDuty for robust alerting.
This comprehensive guide walks you through Zabbix monitoring concepts, reliability calculations, installation methods, web UI configuration, host and template management, custom monitoring, alert integration with OneAlert, Grafana visualization, distributed monitoring, SNMP support, and practical scripts for large‑scale server environments.
This article explains how the automotive platform accelerated its cloud‑native service‑mesh transformation by integrating Opentelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, then details the configuration and practical use of Grafana's unified alerting module—including installation, data source setup, alert rule definition, contact points, message templates, and silencing—to achieve comprehensive observability and automated incident response.
This article describes how ZhaiZhai unified dozens of legacy monitoring tools into a single, all‑in‑one observability platform by adopting Prometheus + Grafana, extending the Prometheus client to push metrics to M3DB, automating Grafana dashboard creation, and building a custom alerting service to reduce operational complexity and improve visibility across business, middleware, and infrastructure services.
This article shares Huolala's experience designing a unified monitoring platform UI, covering the evolution from open‑source dashboards to a fully self‑developed solution, simplification of PromQL, computed metrics, log and trace integration, and the challenges of alert configuration and visualization.
This article compares six open‑source log management platforms—OpenObserve, Grafana Loki, SigNoz, Graylog, Syslog‑ng, and Highlight.io—detailing their features, deployment options, advantages, and drawbacks to help you choose the most suitable solution for effective observability and system performance.
The article outlines a practical framework for business‑level monitoring in banking systems, describing three evolution stages, key metrics such as transaction success rates and volume spikes, concrete alert rules, and the technical challenges of data collection, standardization, and massive parameter management.
This article explains how to design a Prometheus‑based cloud‑native monitoring solution, covering target selection, metric collection, server configuration, Grafana visualization, and alert management with practical examples and code snippets.
This comprehensive guide explains Prometheus fundamentals, its ecosystem, metric collection models, configuration, PromQL querying, custom exporters, Grafana visualization, and Alertmanager setup, providing step‑by‑step instructions and code examples for effective system monitoring and alerting.
This guide explains how to set up Alibaba Cloud Observability Prometheus edition to monitor ClickHouse, covering ClickHouse fundamentals, metric collection, dashboard templates, alert rules, troubleshooting steps, and deployment options for both ACK and ECS environments.
This article describes how the ZhiZhuan B2C backend team built a standardized logging, custom Apollo‑based log agent, Prometheus‑driven alerting service, and first‑responsible‑person mechanism to quickly locate and resolve service timeouts, exceptions, and other production issues, even when working off‑site.
This article explains how to set up Redis monitoring using Prometheus, covering installation of Redis Exporter, Prometheus configuration, Grafana visualization, and alert rule creation, providing step‑by‑step commands and guidance to ensure high availability and performance of Redis instances.
The article details how a high‑throughput e‑commerce checkout pipeline achieves stability by combining fine‑grained metrics, custom trace logs, version‑based data validation, and targeted alert rules that detect latency spikes, error‑code surges, and downstream service failures, enabling rapid incident localization and reliable order processing.
The article details the background, architecture, core features, alert governance, trace integration, and cloud‑native evolution of Watcher, Qunar's internally built, highly scalable monitoring platform that unifies application‑level metrics, alerting, and observability across thousands of services and containers.
This tutorial explains how to install the MySQL Exporter, configure Prometheus to scrape MySQL metrics, set up Grafana dashboards for visualization, and define alerting rules, providing a complete end‑to‑end solution for monitoring MySQL databases in production environments.
The article details Netflix’s self‑built Telltale monitoring system, explaining how it consolidates data sources, reduces alert fatigue, provides intelligent alerts, and continuously optimizes application health assessment for over 100 production services, ultimately improving operational efficiency and reliability.
This article explains how Prometheus can be used to monitor custom thread‑pool metrics in a Spring Boot backend, detailing configuration, dynamic parameter updates via Apollo, code examples for metric registration, and visualization and alerting with Grafana.
This article details how Zhaozhuan's DBA team transformed TiDB cluster management by addressing metadata, resource allocation, upgrade, and alert challenges through a comprehensive automation platform that streamlines work orders, node operations, scaling, monitoring, and alert handling, ultimately reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
This article explains the challenges of monitoring highly distributed applications, why static alert thresholds often fail, and how interval detection using algorithms like Local Outlier Factor can improve alert accuracy while reducing noise across tools such as Grafana, Zabbix, and Open‑Falcon.
Ctrip’s automated error warning solution for its WeChat mini‑programs provides a comprehensive pipeline that injects build IDs, collects runtime errors via SDK, maps them with source maps, aggregates data in an APM MySQL store, and delivers real‑time alerts across development, testing, and production stages.
This article outlines a step‑by‑step asynchronous processing pattern—including request reception, backend handling, exception retry, failure compensation, and alerting—to prioritize functional improvements and quickly enhance system performance while aligning technical actions with business goals.
This article explains the principles behind Prometheus alerts, when they trigger, why they sometimes stay silent, and how Alertmanager’s routing tree and notification pipeline work together to manage alert noise, grouping, silencing, and deduplication.
This comprehensive guide introduces distributed tracing challenges in large microservice systems, explains what Apache SkyWalking is, compares it with Zipkin, Pinpoint and CAT, details performance test results, walks through installation, configuration, custom tracing, log integration, alerting, and high‑availability deployment.
This article explains when Prometheus alerts fire or stay silent, dives into the underlying alerting mechanics, sampling intervals, and the role of the for‑duration, then details Alertmanager's routing tree and notification pipeline that improve alert quality and delivery.
This article presents Python scripts for server‑side and client‑side resource monitoring, automatically checking CPU, memory, disk usage and network traffic, storing alerts in MySQL and optionally sending notifications via email or Enterprise WeChat, with deployment instructions and cron scheduling.
This article provides a comprehensive comparison between Zabbix and Prometheus, covering their architecture, data collection, storage, querying, visualization, and alerting capabilities to help enterprises choose the most suitable monitoring solution for their needs.
This article systematically presents the business background, basic monitoring workflow, usage guidelines, OpenTSDB fundamentals, code precision issues, vmonitor collector architecture, old and new system designs, core alerting metrics, demo illustrations, and a comparison with mainstream monitoring solutions, offering insights for technology selection.
This guide explains why MySQL monitoring is critical, defines five key metric dimensions, shows how to collect them with Prometheus and the MySQL Exporter, provides ready‑to‑use alert rules, and walks through the full setup and dashboard creation on Alibaba Cloud.
This article explains how to design and implement a Prometheus‑based monitoring solution for big‑data components running on Kubernetes, covering metric exposure methods, scrape configurations, alerting architecture, exporter development, and practical code examples for a production‑ready setup.
Prometheus is an open‑source monitoring solution that covers metric exposition, scraping, storage, querying, visualization, and alerting, and this guide walks through its architecture, configuration, custom exporters, PromQL queries, Grafana integration, and alert management, providing a comprehensive introduction for developers and ops engineers.
This guide explains how to collect essential Windows metrics with Prometheus, set up Grafana dashboards for CPU, memory, disk, network, and process monitoring, and configure alert rules, while also comparing self‑hosted and Alibaba Cloud Prometheus solutions for seamless Windows observability.
This article visually explains Prometheus’s architecture, core features, metric collection methods, exporters, PromQL query language, and alerting workflow, helping readers understand how to monitor cloud‑native systems effectively while noting its strengths and limitations.
This article explains the current state of cloud‑native alerting, introduces Grafana Mimir as a horizontally scalable, multi‑tenant storage for Prometheus, details its architecture and components, and provides step‑by‑step guidance for installing, configuring, and operating Mimir in Kubernetes environments.
This guide explains what Kubernetes events are, how to list and filter them, categorizes common event types, and shows practical ways to collect, store, and alert on events using native commands and open‑source tools, helping teams reduce alert fatigue and improve cluster observability.
This article details the design and implementation of a three‑dimensional monitoring system that replaces an outdated custom solution with Prometheus, M3DB remote storage, and Grafana, covering data model choices, metric types, architecture, performance testing, automatic dashboard generation, and a custom alerting service.
This article outlines the essential components of operational monitoring, covering monitoring objectives, methods, core processes, key tools, metrics for hardware, system, application, network, and business layers, as well as alerting, handling, and best practices for building a comprehensive, reliable monitoring solution.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of JD's big‑data log lifecycle, covering background, platform capabilities, log collection methods, processing functions, storage strategies, query mechanisms, DSL extensions, data delivery, and alerting techniques to help engineers build efficient and reliable log management solutions.
This article shares practical experiences and solutions for improving an Alertmanager‑based alert system, addressing problems such as noisy alerts, lack of escalation, missing recovery notifications, suppression limitations, and cumbersome silence management by redesigning architecture, adding custom scripts, and extending database support.
This article details Yanxuan's four‑year evolution of a unified monitoring, alerting, and event‑bus platform for micro‑service architectures, covering design principles, technology selection, multi‑stage implementation, dynamic sampling, custom plugins, data modeling, visualization upgrades, and the final fault‑driven, system‑wide integration.
This article explains how to design and implement a flexible kube‑prometheus‑based monitoring system for big‑data applications running on Kubernetes, covering metric collection methods, scrape configurations, alert rule design, exporter deployment, and practical examples with code snippets.
This article details the design, data‑collection pipeline, monitoring stack, visualization practices, and alert‑response workflow of a globally deployed Alibaba Cloud‑native system that uses ACK, Prometheus, Grafana, and ARMS to achieve end‑to‑end observability across metrics, tracing, and logs.
The article outlines Bilibili’s refined SLO framework—categorizing services into four business tiers, selecting availability, latency, and freshness SLIs, setting concrete SLO targets, and employing multi‑window error‑budget and consumption‑rate alerting strategies to improve stability and provide comprehensive quality dashboards.
This comprehensive guide explains why monitoring is essential, describes reliability metrics, walks through Zabbix installation, web UI configuration, custom monitoring, trigger creation, alert integration, distributed monitoring, SNMP support, and large‑scale server monitoring using scripts, APIs, and auto‑discovery.
This guide walks through Zabbix monitoring fundamentals, covering why monitoring matters, installing Zabbix, configuring servers and agents, creating custom checks, setting up alerts with OneAlert, visualizing data, leveraging auto‑discovery, distributed proxies, and SNMP integration to comprehensively monitor large server fleets.
Grafana 9.0 introduces a suite of usability enhancements—including a visual Prometheus query builder, a visual Loki LogQL generator, improved Explore‑to‑dashboard workflow, revamped heatmap panel, command palette, panel search, trace panel, navigation upgrades, and alerting refinements—aimed at simplifying observability, data visualization, and operational efficiency.
This article systematically outlines the design, components, data flow, and evolution of Vivo’s server‑side monitoring system, covering data collection, transmission, storage with OpenTSDB, visualization, alerting mechanisms, and comparisons with other monitoring solutions.
This comprehensive guide walks you through Prometheus fundamentals, including metric exposure, scraping, storage, querying with PromQL, custom exporter creation in Go, dynamic configuration reloading, and visualizing data with Grafana, while also covering alerting with Alertmanager and best practices for accurate histogram bucket design.
This article provides a detailed overview of Prometheus, covering its architecture, metric exposure, scraping models, storage format, metric types, custom exporter implementation in Go, PromQL query language, built‑in functions, Grafana integration, and alerting with Alertmanager, offering practical code examples throughout.
This article provides a detailed overview of Prometheus, covering its architecture, metric exposure and scraping models, data model, metric types, configuration reload, PromQL query language, custom exporters, Grafana integration, and Alertmanager alerting, with practical code examples and best‑practice tips.
This guide walks developers through selecting Sentry, deploying it with Docker, configuring alerts, managing quotas, and integrating the platform into Flutter (as well as other languages), offering practical tips and solutions to common installation issues.
Prometheus is an open‑source monitoring system that scrapes metrics from services or exporters, stores them in a time‑series database, lets users query with PromQL, visualizes data via its web UI or Grafana, and sends alerts through Alertmanager, supporting custom Go metrics, various discovery methods, and four metric types.
This article provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on setting up Prometheus and Grafana for 24/7 monitoring of Linux servers and MySQL databases, covering installation, configuration, data visualization, alerting with onealert, and common troubleshooting tips for reliable operations.
This article explains how to use Prometheus to create a precise, end‑to‑end alerting system that shortens detection and diagnosis time, integrates logs and metrics, routes alerts to the right owners, and prevents overwhelming alert storms in production environments.
This article introduces Hippo4J, a Java dynamic thread‑pool solution inspired by Meituan's design, detailing its web‑based parameter tuning, monitoring, alerting capabilities, two deployment modes (lightweight with config‑center and standalone server), and the operational advantages it brings to developers and operators.
This article explains ByteDance's baseline monitoring system for data pipelines, detailing its motivation, core concepts, architecture, instance generation, alert types, and handling of complex task dependencies to reduce operational costs and improve SLA compliance across hundreds of projects.
This article describes the end‑to‑end design, metric hierarchy, data collection methods, visualization dashboards, and alerting mechanisms used to build a robust monitoring system for a large‑scale big‑data platform, covering physical hosts, Hadoop components, business services, and data layers with tools such as Telegraf, Prometheus, and Grafana.
To raise front‑end quality, the team implements gray‑release monitoring that triggers log analysis at a 5 % rollout, automatically generates reports within ten minutes, and uses dynamic thresholds and noise‑reduction tactics to detect errors early, enabling rapid rollback or expansion and markedly improving stability and release efficiency.
The article presents a comprehensive case study of KeMonitor, a one‑stop monitoring and alert platform built by 贝壳找房 to unify fragmented alerts, define lifecycle‑based governance, standardize alert metadata, implement graded subscription, on‑call escalation, silencing, self‑healing, and post‑mortem analysis, thereby improving incident response efficiency and reducing alert fatigue.
The article details the background, challenges, multi‑year evolution, current architecture, and future roadmap of Hickwall, Ctrip's enterprise‑grade monitoring and observability platform, covering metrics, logs, traces, high‑cardinality handling, cloud‑native integration, alert governance, and storage engine migrations.
Vivo’s vmonitor system replaces its legacy RabbitMQ‑based pipeline with an HTTP‑driven collector and gateway, stores minute‑level JVM, system, and business metrics in a customized OpenTSDB on HBase, adds precise floating‑point handling and null‑aware aggregation, buffers data in Redis, and provides multi‑dimensional alerts comparable to Zabbix, Open‑Falcon, and Prometheus.
The article presents go-monitor, an open‑source Go library that provides lightweight, lock‑free service quality monitoring, automatic analysis, configurable alerts, and flexible reporting for backend applications, complete with installation steps and code examples.
This tutorial walks through SkyWalking, an open‑source APM framework, explaining its features, architecture, how to install and configure the server and agents, persist data with MySQL, enable log collection, perform performance profiling, and set up alerting rules for robust distributed tracing.
Over two years, we built a monitoring system covering 200+ services and 700+ instances, evolving from ad‑hoc Nginx logs to a Prometheus‑based observability platform with unified dashboards, automated alerts, and lessons on metric selection, alert fatigue, and fault isolation.
This guide explains how to integrate ELK's Logstash with Zabbix using the logstash‑output‑zabbix plugin, covering installation, configuration of Logstash pipelines, Zabbix template and trigger setup, and testing the end‑to‑end alerting workflow.
This article details the background, research, architecture, performance testing, and deployment of a comprehensive monitoring system that leverages Prometheus, Grafana, and M3DB to provide flexible metric collection, automatic dashboard generation, and a custom alerting service for large‑scale business services.
This article explains why alerts and on‑call scheduling are needed, outlines the core principles of an alert scheduling system, describes the architecture evolution from PagerDuty to GoAlert and Notice‑Center, and details the implementation, code snippets, and future outlook for a comprehensive operations monitoring solution.
This article explains Netflix’s home‑grown monitoring system Telltale, detailing its design, multi‑dimensional health‑assessment model, intelligent alerting, integration with Slack, deployment monitoring, and continuous optimization that together keep over a hundred production applications running smoothly.
This article outlines a comprehensive approach to monitoring and ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of real‑time data streams, detailing background challenges, solution design, implementation steps using Flink and automated testing, alert handling procedures, and future improvement plans.
This guide walks you through installing Prometheus, configuring node_exporter and mysqld_exporter for remote Linux and MySQL monitoring, visualizing metrics with Grafana, and setting up multi‑level alerts using Grafana integrated with OneAlert for a robust 24/7 operations monitoring solution.
Qunar’s DBA team overhauled their MySQL monitoring and alert system—originally built on Nagios and NRPE—by integrating a Kafka‑based pipeline, a custom alarm service, and MySQL‑stored alert templates, achieving flexible thresholds, granular silencing, high‑availability processing, and early‑stage intelligent management of alerts, slow queries, and disk space.
This guide explains how to collect TiDB metrics via its HTTP monitoring API, preprocess the data into JSON, create master and regular items in Zabbix, and configure triggers using Prometheus‑style expressions to achieve effective TiDB monitoring.
This article shares Baidu’s ad‑hosting team experience in designing, collecting, alerting, investigating, and remediating front‑end exceptions—covering generic and business‑specific error tracking, data protocols, monitoring strategies, alert tuning, and practical governance to improve user experience and ad performance.
This guide walks through the history, core features, installation methods, configuration, PromQL queries, exporter setup, Grafana integration, and alerting with Alertmanager for Prometheus, providing practical commands and examples for building a complete monitoring solution in cloud‑native environments.
This article explores the challenges of quality monitoring in cloud‑native DevOps pipelines, outlines pain points of massive heterogeneous logs and alerts, and presents a unified observability platform that enables data consolidation, AI‑driven intelligent inspection, and smart alert management to improve system reliability.
This guide explains how to configure Sentry’s Issue and Metric alerts, covering alert types, creation steps, detailed configuration options such as environments, triggers, filters, actions, thresholds, routing to Slack, PagerDuty or custom integrations, and best‑practice tips for reducing noise and ensuring the right people are notified.
This article describes Baidu's game microservice monitoring practice, detailing the initial challenges, system design, risk control, intelligent monitoring, multi‑dimensional visualization, smart alerting, and efficient fault localization, illustrating how a systematic approach improves detection speed, coverage, and issue resolution for large‑scale online games.
This article outlines the goals, methods, core steps, tools, metrics, and alert handling strategies essential for designing a comprehensive monitoring system that ensures system reliability and continuous business operation.
Over two years, we built a monitoring system covering 200+ services and 700+ instances, evolving from ad‑hoc Nginx logs to a Prometheus‑based observability platform with unified dashboards, automated alerts, and lessons on metric selection, alert fatigue, and root‑cause analysis.
This article details Baidu's comprehensive microservice monitoring practice for its game platform, covering the initial fragmented setup, systematic redesign across risk control, intelligent monitoring, smart alerting, and rapid fault localization, and presents the resulting monitoring architecture, visualizations, and future improvement goals.
The article traces the evolution from a rudimentary deployment workflow in a small startup to a mature, Google‑inspired Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) approach, explaining SRE definitions, team duties, error‑budget concepts, key reliability metrics (SLI/SLO/SLA), monitoring implementation with OpenTSDB, and best‑practice alerting rules.
Netflix’s in‑house Telltale system consolidates diverse monitoring data, reduces alert noise, provides multidimensional health assessments, and delivers intelligent, context‑rich notifications, enabling engineers to quickly diagnose and resolve issues across more than 100 production services.
The article details Netflix’s internally built Telltale monitoring platform, explaining its motivation, key features such as multi‑dimensional health assessment, smart alerting, event management, deployment monitoring, and continuous optimization, and how it improves operational efficiency for over a hundred production services.
The article discusses common monitoring challenges such as fragmented tooling and noisy alerts, and proposes solutions including consolidating to a single monitoring framework, prioritizing runtime exceptions, and classifying business alerts with codes and trace information to improve incident response.
The article details the design, architecture, and operational challenges of the Beidou frontend monitoring platform at 58 Group, covering SDK management, behavior trace logging, front‑back link integration, performance optimizations, minute‑level alerting, and permission management.
Grafana 8.0 introduces a major overhaul of its alerting system, new visualizations like state timeline, histogram, and bar panels, reusable library panels, fine‑grained access control, real‑time streaming, and performance improvements that together boost dashboard loading, monitoring, and observability capabilities.
The Mobile SkyNet platform adds a dedicated mobile monitoring layer to SaaS services, using Zanlogger for error, warning, and info logs, Kafka‑HBase pipelines for high‑throughput storage, WeChat‑based alerting, and an MPaaS console for issue visualization, reducing mobile‑side incidents by about twenty percent.
This article details the design and implementation of a comprehensive database monitoring platform that automatically adapts to cluster changes, aggregates host and DB metrics, offers flexible alert templates and strategies, stores data in InfluxDB, and provides customizable dashboards for real‑time insight and incident response.
This article outlines the challenges of operating petabyte‑scale big‑data clusters and presents a comprehensive monitoring framework—including basic and upgraded monitoring layers, metric collection, alerting pipelines, and strategies for alarm convergence and grading—to ensure reliable, proactive SRE operations.
This article details Liulishuo's customized Prometheus monitoring architecture, including data backup to Aliyun SLS, ECS service discovery, advanced alerting with PagerDuty and Goalert, GitOps-driven config management, cloud resource exporters, SLA monitoring, and future plans for storage and alert pipelines.
Learn how to configure kube-eventer to capture Kubernetes Warning and Normal events, use multiple webhook sinks and ConfigMaps to send detailed alerts to enterprise WeChat groups, tag responsible users, and customize request bodies for effective cluster monitoring and rapid issue resolution.
This guide explains why monitoring is essential throughout a product lifecycle, outlines monitoring modes and methods, compares health checks, logs, tracing and metric solutions, and provides a detailed Prometheus‑based monitoring architecture with concrete metric definitions, alerting rules, and incident‑response procedures.
This case study outlines iQIYI's LEDAO middle‑platform monitoring challenges, evaluates open‑source solutions, details the selection and customization of CAT, and presents deployment, integration, health‑check, and alerting enhancements that now support over 100 microservices across multiple regions.
This article provides a complete tutorial on Prometheus, covering its origins, core features, installation methods (binary and Docker), configuration file structure, PromQL basics, HTTP API usage, Grafana integration, various exporters for metrics collection, and alerting with Alertmanager, all within a cloud‑native monitoring context.
This article explains how JD’s Open Platform’s Business Message Queue (BMQ) architecture, dynamic channels, retry and downgrade mechanisms, and real‑time monitoring ensure reliable, low‑risk message delivery across thousands of merchants while simplifying integration and scaling for future growth.
This article shares a step‑by‑step practice of constructing an observability‑driven monitoring and alerting platform, covering data source selection, collection pipelines, storage choices, metric systems, visualization tools, and alert visualisation, with concrete code snippets and real‑world trade‑offs.
To meet the LEDAO platform’s need for rapid anomaly detection, full‑stack observability, and reliable alerting across more than 100 microservices, iQIYI evaluated OpenFalcon, Prometheus and CAT, selected CAT, deployed separate mainland and overseas clusters, added configurable access, health‑check and integrated alert channels, enabling five‑minute service onboarding, near‑zero‑intrusion instrumentation, and real‑time business‑level monitoring.
This article provides a comprehensive tutorial on setting up Spring Boot application monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, covering project creation, dependency configuration, security setup, Prometheus server installation, Grafana dashboard creation, email alerting configuration, and testing the end‑to‑end alert workflow.
