Discover six essential server monitoring tools—including Conky, Glances, Linux Dash, Netdata, Prometheus + Grafana, and Ward—that help system administrators track performance, visualize metrics, and maintain reliable infrastructure across diverse platforms.
This guide walks through deploying an Nginx sample app on Kubernetes, exposing Prometheus‑collected custom metrics, configuring a Prometheus adapter, and creating a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler that scales the deployment based on request‑per‑second metrics.
This guide explains the most common Prometheus Operator metrics for Kubernetes, detailing each metric's purpose, the PromQL expression to monitor it, and the related underlying metrics, helping you fine‑tune alerts and avoid unnecessary noise in your cluster monitoring.
This article explains Prometheus's built‑in time‑series database (TSDB), covering its concepts, storage configuration, block structure, write‑ahead log, mmap reads, inverted indexing, data compression, and remote storage integration for scalable monitoring.
Version 3.20.09.0 of the open‑source DTLE data‑transfer component for MySQL has been released, introducing replication‑delay and memory‑usage monitoring with Prometheus, providing configuration examples and Docker commands, and fixing incremental serialization, CPU usage, and uppercase‑where clause handling.
Envoy 1.15 introduces a Postgres filter that transparently parses the PostgreSQL wire protocol, extracts rich metrics without any server‑side changes, and exports them to Prometheus, while outlining its design goals, current capabilities, usage steps, limitations, and future roadmap.
After an AWS network jitter caused lingering slow Redis requests in a Java project using Redisson sentinel, the team traced the issue through source code inspection, custom Prometheus metrics, chaos‑blade testing, and Arthas debugging, ultimately identifying a connection‑pool bug and submitting a fix to Redisson's master branch.
This guide walks through deploying clickhouse-exporter, configuring Prometheus to scrape its metrics, and importing a Grafana dashboard to monitor ClickHouse single‑node or cluster performance, providing a practical monitoring solution for the database.
This guide walks through Prometheus fundamentals, architecture, components, service discovery, Docker-based deployment, exporter integration, Alertmanager configuration, Grafana visualization, PromQL queries, and Consul service discovery, providing a complete end‑to‑end monitoring solution for cloud‑native environments.
This comprehensive guide explores Prometheus as a cloud‑native monitoring solution for Kubernetes, covering core principles, exporter selection, configuration snippets, Grafana dashboard creation, capacity planning, high‑cardinality challenges, rate calculations, prediction functions, high‑availability designs, and integration with Alertmanager and other operational tools.
This article provides a comprehensive guide on using Prometheus for Kubernetes monitoring, covering fundamental principles, exporter selection, Grafana dashboard creation, memory and storage optimization, high‑availability designs, query performance, cardinality management, and integration with alerting and logging systems.
Zhongtong built the ESPaaS platform to automate deployment, unify monitoring, and provide real‑time alerts and diagnostic capabilities for over 40 Elasticsearch clusters, handling petabytes of data with Prometheus, Grafana, and DingTalk integrations while sharing practical lessons learned.
This article introduces Prometheus' query language PromQL, explains instant and range vector selectors, label matching, offset handling, storage design, common functions and aggregation operators, and provides practical advice for efficient querying and avoiding performance issues.
This article explains why the HTTP trace feature disappears in Spring Boot Admin after version 2.2.x, details the investigation steps that reveal the default disabling of the InMemoryHttpTraceRepository, and recommends using third‑party tracing solutions such as Prometheus with Grafana for observable metrics.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Nginx Ingress on Tencent Cloud TKE, covering its fundamentals, three deployment architectures, selection criteria, internal and external load‑balancer configurations, bandwidth considerations, Ingress creation, and monitoring with Prometheus.
This comprehensive guide explores Prometheus monitoring fundamentals, key design principles, exporter selection for Kubernetes, advanced configuration tricks, capacity planning, high‑cardinality pitfalls, HA architectures, and integration with Grafana, Alertmanager, and Thanos to help you build reliable cloud‑native observability pipelines.
This guide details how to enable Prometheus metrics on GitLab Runner, configure Prometheus to scrape those metrics, and set up the gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter with Grafana dashboards to monitor both runner performance and CI/CD pipeline health.
iQIYI built a Prometheus‑based microservice monitoring platform that uses Spring Boot Actuator, Micrometer, custom QAE collectors, file‑based service discovery, and an Alert‑proxy to gather container, application, and third‑party metrics, define PromQL alert rules, and forward alerts to its unified notification system, illustrating best practices and lessons learned.
This article explains the motivations behind choosing Loki over traditional ELK/EFK stacks for container cloud logging, outlines ELK's drawbacks, describes Loki's cost‑effective architecture and components such as Distributor, Ingester, and Querier, and highlights its scalability in cloud‑native environments.
This tutorial shows Linux system administrators and DevOps engineers how to create a fully customizable, distributed monitoring dashboard by installing and configuring Prometheus, Pushgateway, and Grafana, writing a Bash script to push process metrics, and visualizing CPU and memory usage with Grafana panels and PromQL queries.
This article introduces Prometheus, covering its architecture, key features, data model, metric types, installation steps, integration with node_exporter and Grafana, and outlines suitable and unsuitable use cases for this open‑source monitoring system.
After two months of intensive development, the team launched a new monitoring and alerting platform that transforms a legacy system into a service‑oriented solution, addressing pain points such as inflexible escalation, noisy alerts, and poor ownership while introducing phone alerts, automated escalation, Prometheus integration, and a unified rule engine.
This guide walks through installing Kuberhealthy 2.x on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm, configuring built‑in and custom checks, exposing metrics via Prometheus, and defining key performance indicators such as availability, utilization, latency, and error rates with concrete PromQL queries.
This article explains how Loki, a lightweight Grafana‑based log system, addresses the heavy resource usage and complexity of ELK/EFK in Kubernetes environments by simplifying architecture, reducing cost, and improving log‑metric integration for faster incident response.
This guide walks through downloading, building, and configuring the nginx‑module‑vts and nginx‑vts‑exporter on a Kubernetes master, then integrates them with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager for full‑stack monitoring and alerting.
This article explains why and how Meicai migrated its monitoring platform to Nightingale, introduces the Prometheus‑Exporter‑Collector plugin, details the data‑model conversion rules, and provides a step‑by‑step usage guide with screenshots and resource links.
This article describes how a company replaced its Zabbix‑based monitoring with a scalable, Prometheus‑driven alert engine that leverages ClickHouse for storage, remote‑storage integration via Prom2Click, and materialized views to provide flexible, SQL‑based business metric alerts.
This article explains the complete Prometheus data collection workflow, covering key concepts such as targets, samples, and meta labels, detailing the relabeling steps, configuration options, example use‑cases, and the final scrape and storage phases for effective monitoring.
This roundup highlights recent Kubernetes ecosystem changes, including the addition of anti‑discrimination statements to documentation, the upcoming 1.19.0‑beta.1 code freeze, Linkerd 2.8 multi‑cluster support, several upstream enhancements, and curated open‑source project and reading recommendations for cloud‑native practitioners.
This guide walks through setting up a complete Prometheus monitoring stack on a Kubernetes cluster, covering both traditional YAML deployments and the Prometheus Operator, configuring services, integrating Grafana dashboards, and enabling Alertmanager notifications including WeChat alerts.
iQIYI’s micro‑service monitoring combines low‑cost automatic instrumentation, declarative method metrics, and push‑gateway data into a unified multi‑dimensional schema, visualized centrally in Grafana and managed with standardized alert rules, demonstrating that simple integration, centralized dashboards, and early‑stage governance enable rapid anomaly detection and effective incident response.
This article explains Prometheus data collection by describing metric syntax, label usage, time‑series concepts, the four logical metric types (Counter, Gauge, Histogram, Summary), and provides practical naming, labeling, and selection guidelines for effective monitoring.
This article explores the history and principles of Prometheus monitoring, offers guidance on version selection, highlights its limitations, details common Kubernetes exporters, shows Grafana dashboard setups, and provides in‑depth strategies for exporter aggregation, golden metrics, multi‑cluster scraping, GPU monitoring, timezone handling, memory optimization, capacity planning, and rate calculations.
This article details how Tongcheng‑eLong transitioned from Docker‑Host deployments to a Kubernetes‑based platform for hundreds of storage and compute services, covering network integration, IP management, service synchronization, storage strategies, operator development, monitoring, logging, and the challenges and future plans they encountered.
This guide walks through deploying mysqld_exporter, configuring Prometheus and Grafana, and monitoring essential MySQL metrics such as replication health, query throughput, slow‑query counts, connection usage, and InnoDB buffer‑pool statistics, while also showing how to set up alert rules for proactive database operations.
Prometheus, a CNCF‑graduated, cloud‑native monitoring system, combines pull‑based target discovery, a label‑rich time‑series data model, and four core metric types—gauge, counter, histogram, and summary—to provide near‑real‑time visibility, short‑term retention, alerting via AlertManager, and integration with Grafana and remote storage for scalable observability.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Prometheus, covering its origins, architecture, step‑by‑step deployment, configuration, web UI usage, as well as its key advantages and limitations for cloud‑native monitoring and operations.
This guide explains the concepts of white‑box and black‑box monitoring, introduces Prometheus Blackbox Exporter, walks through installation, systemd setup, and detailed Prometheus configurations for HTTP, TCP, ICMP, POST and SSL checks, shows Grafana dashboard integration, and provides alert rule examples for reliable service health monitoring.
This tutorial provides a beginner-friendly, step-by-step walkthrough for downloading, installing, configuring, and verifying Prometheus, Node Exporter, Alertmanager, and Grafana on a Linux server, including service setup, configuration files, and a simple alert test.
This article explains the Thanos architecture, compares Sidecar and Receiver deployment modes, walks through object‑storage configuration, and provides complete Kubernetes YAML examples for Prometheus, Thanos Sidecar, Query, Store Gateway, Ruler, Compact, and Receiver to build a large‑scale cloud‑native monitoring system.
This article provides a detailed analysis of Thanos' architecture, explaining each core component—Query, Sidecar, Store Gateway, Ruler, Compact, and the upcoming Receiver—how they enable global view, high availability, and long‑term storage for distributed Prometheus deployments, and discusses design trade‑offs and optimization strategies.
This article details how the Chinese travel platform “要出发” transformed its Spring Cloud‑based micro‑service architecture to a UK8S‑powered Kubernetes environment, introducing Spring Cloud Kubernetes discovery, Prometheus JVM monitoring, HPA‑driven autoscaling, Elastic APM tracing, and Istio service governance to achieve higher elasticity, observability, and operational efficiency.
This article walks through setting up a production‑grade MySQL monitoring solution using Prometheus and Grafana, covering exporter installation, MySQL user configuration, systemd service setup, Prometheus job definition, key MySQL performance metrics, and basic alerting rules.
This tutorial walks through Micrometer's metric types, how to register them with MeterRegistry, apply tags and naming conventions, and integrate the framework into Spring Boot applications with Actuator, Prometheus scraping, and Grafana visualization for comprehensive backend monitoring.
This article introduces the core concepts and architecture of the open‑source Prometheus monitoring system, explains its data model and metric types, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to install a Prometheus server, collect host metrics with Node Exporter, and visualize them using Grafana.
This article explains how to design and implement a cloud‑native, large‑scale distributed monitoring system using Prometheus, covering its limitations, service‑level sharding, centralized storage, federation, and high‑availability strategies to overcome scaling challenges in Kubernetes environments.
This article details Xiaomi's implementation of a highly available, persistent, and dynamically scalable Kubernetes monitoring system, covering challenges, architecture choices, Prometheus federation, performance testing, and future enhancements for cloud‑native observability.
This article compares Prometheus with Zabbix, walks through downloading and installing Prometheus, explains the key sections of prometheus.yml, shows how to add a node_exporter for machine metrics, and demonstrates integrating Grafana to create rich monitoring dashboards.
Facing the explosion of 5G traffic and billions of daily call records, Jiangsu Mobile’s IT operations team adopted Prometheus as the core time‑series database, designing a high‑availability, low‑latency monitoring platform that captures, stores, visualizes and predicts performance metrics across their massive billing system.
This article explains why monitoring is essential for operations, reviews popular monitoring tools such as Cacti, Nagios, Zabbix, Ganglia, Centreon, Prometheus and Grafana, outlines a six‑layer unified monitoring platform architecture, offers selection guidance for different enterprise sizes, and shares evolution lessons from small to large scale deployments.
Learn how to set up Prometheus and Grafana to monitor Redis instances by installing the redis_exporter plugin, configuring Prometheus scrape jobs, handling build issues, and visualizing metrics with ready-made Grafana dashboards, all illustrated with code snippets and configuration examples.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Prometheus, covering its open‑source monitoring architecture, multi‑dimensional data model, query language, storage mechanisms, service discovery, alerting workflow with Alertmanager, and visualization using Grafana, all illustrated with key diagrams and configuration examples.
This tutorial walks through building a Spring Boot application, integrating Micrometer for metric collection, deploying Prometheus and Grafana via Docker, configuring dynamic service discovery, and creating custom request‑count metrics with AOP, providing a complete end‑to‑end monitoring solution.
This guide explains how to install and configure the Prometheus plugin for Jenkins, set up monitoring endpoints, adjust ConfigMap settings, and connect Grafana to display Jenkins CI metrics, providing a complete end‑to‑end DevOps monitoring solution.
This guide walks through deploying node‑exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana on a Kubernetes cluster with YAML manifests, configuring services, RBAC, and Grafana dashboards to monitor cluster metrics, and includes verification steps and code examples.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of using Prometheus and Grafana for metric collection, storage, querying with PromQL, visualization, and alerting, including exporter integration, metric types, high‑availability setups, and practical examples for modern microservice architectures.
This article introduces Prometheus and Grafana as a powerful monitoring stack, explains their architecture, metric collection, storage options, query language, integration with Grafana for dashboards and alerts, and shares practical deployment patterns and high‑availability solutions.
This guide explains how to monitor Alibaba Cloud RDS instances by deploying Prometheus and Grafana, using the official mysqld_exporter, a custom aliyun-exporter, rebuilding Docker images, configuring supervisor and Prometheus service discovery, and automating the entire workflow while noting limitations.
This guide explains the background, key features, architecture, and step‑by‑step deployment of Thanos—including Sidecar, Store, Query, Compact, Bucket, Rule, and Check components—to provide a unified, high‑availability Prometheus monitoring view with unlimited historical data storage using object storage.
Jiangsu Mobile’s IT operations team partnered with Newland to build a high‑availability, real‑time performance management platform using Prometheus, achieving billion‑level call‑record monitoring, low‑latency queries, data compression, and advanced forecasting, dramatically improving system health visibility and operational efficiency.
The article explains how Thanos combined with Prometheus provides a cloud‑native, highly available solution for long‑term metric storage and fast querying to address the exponential growth of monitoring data in large OpenStack and Ceph deployments.
This article explains how the Thanos and Prometheus combination provides long‑term, highly available monitoring for massive OpenStack and Ceph clusters, detailing its features, architecture, key components, practical deployment issues, and the operational problems it resolves.
This article explains how Java memory leaks can occur despite automatic garbage collection, describes JVM reachability analysis, shows how to monitor and detect leaks using Spring Boot Actuator, Prometheus, and Grafana, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for heap dump analysis and code fixes.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud Container Service (ACK) designs a unit‑based, tiered management system, capacity planning model, global observability architecture, and pluggable components to reliably operate more than ten thousand diverse Kubernetes clusters during the massive Double‑11 shopping event.
This article introduces Prometheus, an open‑source monitoring system, explains its core components such as server, exporters, and Alertmanager, provides step‑by‑step installation and configuration instructions, demonstrates alert rule setup, and shows integration with tools like Grafana, Telegraf, Spring Boot and Canal.
This article explains the fundamentals of monitoring and logging in large‑scale Kubernetes clusters, classifies monitoring types, traces the evolution from Heapster to the lightweight metrics‑server, outlines the three Kubernetes monitoring APIs, reviews Prometheus as the de‑facto standard, and describes Alibaba Cloud’s enhanced monitoring and logging solutions.
This roundup highlights the latest cloud‑native announcements, including Helm 3’s stable release, the GitHub Octoverse language trends, upcoming KubeCon North America, CNCF’s Prometheus report, Kubernetes 1.17 code freeze, key upstream feature improvements, and a curated list of open‑source projects and reading recommendations.
This article shares practical Prometheus best‑practice tips, covering the accuracy‑reliability trade‑off, self‑monitoring setups, avoiding NFS storage, pruning high‑cardinality metrics, handling rate‑function traps, alert‑graph mismatches, group_interval effects, and the overarching goal of stable, cost‑effective observability.
This article explains the purpose, core functions, classification, layered architecture, and popular implementations of IT monitoring systems, covering log‑based, trace‑based, and metric‑based approaches as well as a comparison of Zabbix and Prometheus.
This guide walks through the architecture of Prometheus, the key Kubernetes monitoring metrics, and step‑by‑step instructions to deploy Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager on a K8s cluster, configure RBAC, set up ConfigMaps, expose services, import dashboards, and test alert notifications via email.
This article explains the essential functions of IT monitoring systems, classifies them into log, trace, and metric types, describes a five‑layer monitoring architecture, and compares two popular open‑source solutions—Zabbix and Prometheus—helping practitioners choose the right tool for their environment.
This article explains how to migrate a Mesos+Marathon environment to OpenShift and configure Prometheus Operator ServiceMonitor resources, including service creation, ServiceMonitor definition, and verification steps, with full YAML examples and screenshots of the monitoring UI.
This article introduces Prometheus, compares it with Zabbix, Open‑Falcon and Nagios, explains its architecture, data model, exporters, storage options, query language, alerting and federation, and shares practical deployment experiences and common Q&A for cloud‑native environments.
This article introduces Prometheus, an open‑source cloud‑native monitoring and alerting system, covering its main characteristics, core components, architecture diagram, typical use cases, query language syntax, built‑in functions, time‑series types, and practical tips for reliable operation.
This article explains the three main monitoring approaches—log collection, distributed tracing, and metric gathering—in microservice architectures, outlines the layered monitoring model, lists key system, application, and user metrics, and reviews popular open‑source time‑series monitoring tools such as Prometheus, OpenTSDB, and InfluxDB.
This tutorial explains how to install the Contour Ingress controller backed by Envoy on Kubernetes, configure IngressRoute resources, examine Envoy's static and dynamic configuration, and integrate Prometheus and Grafana monitoring with proper RBAC and ServiceMonitor setup.
This guide walks through downloading, installing, configuring, and verifying Prometheus, Alertmanager, Node Exporter, and Grafana on a Linux server, including service setup, YAML configuration files, and a simple test to trigger and receive an alert via email.
Prometheus, an open‑source monitoring and alerting toolkit originally developed by SoundCloud and now a CNCF project, offers multidimensional data models, flexible queries, pull‑based data collection, various metric types (counter, gauge, summary, histogram), local and remote storage, service discovery, and integrates with Grafana for visualization.
This article explains the fundamentals of Prometheus histogram metrics, illustrates why they are cumulative, shows how to drop unwanted buckets with relabeling, and demonstrates quantile calculations using the histogram_quantile function, providing practical examples and code snippets for effective monitoring.
This article explains the four core Prometheus metric types—Counter, Gauge, Histogram, and Summary—detailing their characteristics, appropriate use cases, PromQL functions, and how they differ, while providing language-specific client library references and visual examples.
This article explains why comprehensive, multi‑layer monitoring is essential for distributed systems, outlines environment, program, and business metrics, recommends practical tools such as Zabbix, open‑falcon, Prometheus and Grafana, and provides a step‑by‑step evolution plan and alerting strategy.
This week’s roundup covers Kubernetes 1.16 API deprecations, new managed Prometheus services from Azure and Alibaba Cloud, upcoming KEP enhancements, Knative serving updates, the Kopf operator framework, curated reading links, and a CNCF‑Alibaba cloud‑native course on networking and policies.
This article details Xiaomi's Ocean elastic scheduling platform's challenges in monitoring massive Kubernetes clusters, the transition from Open‑Falcon to a Prometheus‑based solution with remote storage, partitioned deployment strategies, performance testing, and future plans for automated scaling and data analytics.
This article compares three container alerting frameworks—Alertmanager, Kapacitor, and Bosun—explains why Bosun was chosen for its flexible HTTP API rule deployment and low learning curve, and provides step‑by‑step configuration, rule definition, notification, and templating examples for integrating Bosun with Prometheus.
This article examines the limitations of Prometheus's original V2 time‑series storage, proposes a block‑oriented V3 architecture that tackles series churn, write amplification, and indexing inefficiencies, and validates the new design with extensive benchmarks showing dramatic reductions in memory, CPU, and disk usage.
This article details Xiaomi's end‑to‑end, highly available Kubernetes monitoring solution that combines Prometheus, OpenTSDB, and Falcon to handle massive dynamic metrics, ensure persistent storage, and support seamless scaling across multiple clusters.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Prometheus, an open‑source monitoring and alerting system, covering its origins, key features, architecture, core components, metric types, data collection methods, service discovery, storage options, and query capabilities.
This article details the design and evolution of a highly available, persistent, and dynamically adjustable Kubernetes monitoring solution at Xiaomi, covering initial Falcon‑based approaches, the transition to Prometheus with remote storage via OpenTSDB, federation‑based partitioning, deployment strategies, performance testing, and future enhancements.
This guide walks through downloading, extracting, and setting up Node Exporter, Alertmanager, Prometheus, and Grafana on a Linux server, configuring their systemd services, customizing alert rules, and verifying the monitoring and alerting pipeline with screenshots of each verification step.
This article explains Prometheus metric naming conventions, label usage, metric types such as Counter, Gauge, Summary, and Histogram, and describes the structure of data samples, providing examples and best‑practice guidelines for defining and classifying metrics in monitoring systems.
This article shares a small team’s step‑by‑step journey from basic monitoring to fully automated CI/CD pipelines, detailing why Prometheus was chosen, how Ansible and GitLab integrate with Jenkins, and tips for configuration versioning, alerting, and scaling the setup.
This article reviews common open‑source monitoring tools, shares the evolution of China Unicom's big‑data platform monitoring, and provides practical guidance on selecting collectors, databases, and visualization components, with detailed configurations for Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, and automation recovery techniques.
This article describes the challenges of scaling the 58 Cloud Search service, explains why Prometheus was selected as the monitoring stack, and details the architecture, data collection, storage, alerting, visualization, and future enhancements of the resulting cloud‑native monitoring system.
This article reviews common open‑source monitoring combinations, compares their strengths and weaknesses, and shares practical guidance on selecting collectors, storage back‑ends, and visualization tools such as Telegraf, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, and alertmanager for large‑scale data platform operations.
This article analyses why a custom Prometheus exporter for Percona MySQL 5.7.23 caused new‑connection failures and query timeouts, reveals a mutex deadlock involving LOCK_global_system_variables, LOCK_log and LOCK_status, and shows that upgrading to MySQL 5.7.25‑28 resolves the issue.
This article explains how to configure Spring Boot Actuator to export metrics to InfluxDB and Prometheus, covering Docker setup, Micrometer dependencies, application properties, sample controller code, test data generation, and visualisation with Grafana.
The article introduces Nacos 0.8.0, highlighting its three major production features—user login, Prometheus metrics, and namespace isolation—while providing step‑by‑step download links, startup commands for Linux and Windows, and instructions to access the default login console.
The article describes how 360 built a Kubernetes‑based container platform monitoring system using Prometheus, ELK, Grafana and custom components, detailing its architecture, monitoring dimensions, log collection, alerting, selection rationale, high‑availability design, and future evolution for scalable cloud‑native operations.
This article details the architectural design and engineering practices behind building a comprehensive Application Performance Management dashboard for Android applications, covering real-time monitoring, version comparison, development cycle tracking, automated data collection, and integrated test coverage analysis to ensure sustainable software quality and delivery efficiency.
This article shares a step‑by‑step experience of a small team that built a low‑cost automated operations pipeline using Prometheus for monitoring, Ansible for configuration management, and Jenkins for CI/CD, covering monitoring, alerting, versioned configs, and scalable deployment practices.
