Prometheus Monitoring System Setup: From Metric Collection to Alert Notifications
Prometheus + Grafana is the standard combination for modern monitoring. This hands-on guide walks you through building a complete Prometheus monitoring system.
Designing Prometheus Alert Rules: PromQL and Alertmanager Routing
Good alert rules first suppress noise, then notify precisely. Based on the official Prometheus docs, this article explains PromQL rule expressions and how to design Alertmanager grouping, routing, inhibition, and silences.
Log Aggregation and Query: Choosing Between Loki and ELK
Centralized log querying accelerates fault diagnosis. This article compares ELK and Grafana Loki, covering label design, LogQL queries, and turning logs into metrics in practice.
Cloud Monitoring Services Compared: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud each ship a native monitoring stack. This article compares CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Google Cloud Monitoring so you can pick the right approach for your cloud environment.
APM and Distributed Tracing: OpenTelemetry in Practice
When a request crosses many services, only distributed tracing reveals the full path. Based on the official OpenTelemetry docs, this article covers spans, trace context, context propagation, and sampling strategies.
Grafana Cloud Cost Attribution: Splitting Observability Spend by Team
Grafana Cloud cost attribution now extends to Synthetic Monitoring and k6 performance testing: labels break metrics, logs, traces, checks, and load-test spend down by team, environment, or service, supporting chargeback and showback.
Grafana 13.1 Released: Observability as Code and a Wider AI Assistant
Released June 24, 2026, Grafana 13.1 brings Git Sync root-level sync and signed commits, Grafana Assistant across more data sources, section-level variables GA, and a revamped query editor in public preview.