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Getulio Ruiz

Observability

5 articles

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How a sample moves through my VictoriaMetrics cluster Three vmagents, two vmauths, two vminserts and three vmstorages on three workers: where a sample goes, why it gets stored four times, and what happened when I deleted pods on purpose. Observability
Loki vs VictoriaLogs on a four-node homelab Same logs into both for a day, the same five searches, then two rounds of k6, the second with both on equal pods, until one of them gave up. Observability
The Log Stack Fluent Bit forwards, Fluentd aggregates, Loki stores: rebuilding the logging pipeline around fluent-operator. Observability
The Metrics Stack Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana in the homelab: what gets scraped, where it goes, how long it lives. Observability
The Observability Stack How observability fits together in the homelab: Prometheus and Thanos for metrics, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, and Loki for logs, all on Grafana and MinIO. Observability