Something amazing of learning more about #Grafana and #Prometheus as part of building the @tuist server is that we’ll build on that knowledge to provide a /metrics for endpoint for organizations and developers, and pre-made Grafana dashboard if they want more flexibility over how they’d like to visualize and interact with their projects’ data.
Tuist plays the role of collecting, standardizing, and making that data accessible.
I replaced 10 MiB Go bloat with an AWK script and a tiny HTTP/CGI server. This time it’s the #Unbound metrics exporter. It does the some job as the unbound_exporter written in Golang, but in a fraction of total lines of code, disk space and memory usage. And it’s perhaps even safer, given how common vulnerabilities are in Golang’s core libraries…
https://github.com/jirutka/unbound-exporter-cgi
Many #Prometheus exporters (scrapers) can be rewritten in much efficient way, they are usually very simple. Another example is the Node Exporter – OpenWrt rewrote it in a few lines of Lua.
You may think that CGI is an ancient technology; I surely wouldn’t recommend it for running any public website, but I think that for this use case – metrics exporter only accessed from a private monitoring network – it’s an ideal solution.
What was monitoring like before Prometheus?
Iris Dyrmishi breaks it down in this clip from the first 
Thunder episode—a short recap of our full 
️ Enlightning session.
Full epidsode here:
youtu.be/1EtqYh5sTl8
No green thumb? No problem.
In celebration of #EarthDay on April 22, here's a simple #IoT project to keep your plants happy and healthy using #Arduino, #Prometheus, and #Grafana Cloud.
Happy gardening!
I'm excited to launch Thunder — a new series that recaps highlights from ️ Enlightning, my long-form tech show where I learn new tools live, with no slides or demos—just questions, conversation, and a lightboard.
The premiere episode features Iris Dyrmishi teaching me #Prometheus.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/1EtqYh5sTl8
@tracketpacer #Prometheus and different exporters. Some devices now have native metrics endpoints…
The observability world loves a good rivalry — but this isn’t one.
#Prometheus and #OpenTelemetry are evolving together, not apart. Myrle Krantz, Director of Engineering, explains why.
@christopherkunz @heiseonline Gut gut. Habt ihr schonmal von #Prometheus, #blackboxexporter, und #Grafana gehoert? ;)
Oder Grafana Cloud synthetic monitoring?
For the 2nd straight year, half of all organizations invested more in #Prometheus & #OpenTelemetry.
This data is based on our 3rd annual Observability Survey, which features insights from 1,200+ respondents in observability.
Have you observed something similar in your team/organization?
See the report: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/?mdm=social
Prometheus in 30 seconds with Iris Dyrmishi!
WildFly 36.0.0.Final is now available! Run source-only Jakarta EE and MicroProfile apps with #JBang + #WildFlyGlow; expose #Micrometer metrics via #Prometheus and more. Learn all about it at https://bit.ly/4cvP5rK
Is there an on-premise, open source option for a monitoring/telemetry platform comparable* to say New Relic or Dynatrace with an approachable query language?
Is Prometheus+Grafana pretty much it?
Simpler the better, approachable for a casual user (i.e. curious non-technical tenants) would be great.
* Caveats for "comparable" apply!
Want to dive deeper into #Grafana, #Prometheus #OpenTelemetry, or datasource plugins? 
Our hands-on labs at #GrafanaCON are where learning gets real. Tinker, test, and troubleshoot alongside Grafana experts. 
May 6 | Only with a GrafanaCON ticket
Add your labs when you register: https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/2025/hands-on-labs/?src=masto&mdm=social&camp=gcon2025
If you've tried both Thanos and Mimir, which do you prefer? Feel free to comment why below 
So, I've been using Thanos to receive and store my prometheus metrics long term in a self hosted S3 bucket. Thanos also acts as a datasource for my dashboards in Grafana, and provides a Ruler, which evaluates alerting rulers and forwards them to my alertmanager. It's ok. It's certainly got it's downsides, which I can go into later, but I've thinking... what about Mimir?
How do you all feel about Grafana's Mimir (source on GitHub)? It's AGPL and seems to literally be a replacement of Thanos, which is Apache 2.0.
Thanos description from their website:
Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.
Mimir description from their website:
...open source software project that provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics.
Both with work with alloy and prometheus alike. Both require you to configure initially confusing hashrings and replication parameters. Both have a bunch of large companies adopting them, so... now I feel conflicted. Should I try mimir? Poll in reply.
Aaaaaah pushgateway you heathens whyyyyy #prometheus #kubecon
Prometheus a sculpture from two years ago. Now I'm thinking Elephantman?
"From different angles, no clear head or foot, punctured slits and holes.. Prometheus tends to change its shape. Opening.. and closing…
Together with the constant change in light, during night and day and its geometric perforated shell Prometheus creates a changing play between shadow and light."
@erincandescent If a thing's worth doing, then it's worth over-doing. I'm now running the #Prometheus #Chrony exporter on 5 systems now, and using the error metric from its GH page, it looks like I'm running 50-100 usec of #NTP error now, which should be more than good enough.
I like deep dives and I cannot lie #kubecon #prometheus #cadvisor
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