Databases
Monitor Valkey with Prometheus and Grafana
A cache you cannot see is a cache you are trusting on faith. Valkey will happily serve millions…
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prometheus
How To
Install Prometheus on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Prometheus is the monitoring backbone of most Kubernetes and cloud-native stacks. On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with kernel 7.0,…
AWS
Deploy Prometheus and Grafana on EKS (2026 Guide)
Tested kube-prometheus-stack on EKS 1.33 with 12 real Grafana dashboard screenshots. EBS CSI driver, gp3 storage, AlertManager Slack,…
Debian
Install Prometheus mysqld_exporter on Ubuntu 24.04
The Prometheus mysqld_exporter scrapes metrics from MySQL or MariaDB and exposes them in the Prometheus text format on…
How To
Install Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes with Helm
Monitoring a Kubernetes cluster without the kube-prometheus-stack is like running a data center with the lights off. The…
How To
Monitor Linux Server Uptime and Health with Prometheus and Grafana
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system that collects time-series metrics from your infrastructure using a pull model over…
How To
Best Grafana and Prometheus Books for 2026
Grafana and Prometheus have become the standard open-source monitoring stack. Prometheus scrapes and stores metrics. Grafana visualizes them.…
Docker
Monitor Docker Containers with Prometheus and Grafana
Containers are ephemeral by design, which makes monitoring them different from traditional servers. You need per-container CPU, memory,…
How To
Monitor DNS Servers with Prometheus and Grafana
DNS is one of those services that works perfectly until it doesn’t, and when it breaks, everything breaks.…
How To
Monitor Redis with Prometheus and Grafana
Redis operates almost entirely in memory, which makes it fast but also means problems escalate quickly. A memory…
Databases
Monitor PostgreSQL with Prometheus and Grafana
PostgreSQL’s internal statistics collector tracks everything from tuple operations to lock waits, but those metrics are only useful…
Databases
Monitor MySQL / MariaDB with Prometheus and Grafana
Database performance monitoring is non-negotiable in production. Slow queries, connection exhaustion, and replication lag are the top three…