The Challenge The customer runs IBM DB2 databases and Rocket Software enterprise applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Their requirement was clear: complete observability with zero dependency on external monitoring platforms. No Datadog, no New Relic, no self-hosted…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is one of the most practical applications of LLMs today. It allows us to chat with our own data like documents, logs, notes without retraining a model. In this post, I want to…
I’ve been hearing a lot about “vibe-coding”, the idea that you can just flow with your ideas while the heavy lifting is handled by your AI pair programmer. Today, I put it to the test with Antigravity…
Grafana is the go-to platform for visualization. But what if you could interact with your Grafana dashboards, alerts, and configurations directly from your IDE? That’s where Model Context Protocol (MCP) comes in. MCP makes it possible…
A few weeks ago, I dived into Grafana Beyla, and I was blown away by its simplicity and power. The promise of “zero-instrumentation” monitoring is a game-changer for developers and SREs who want deep insights without…
The “Why”: When to Use HTTP SD over Native Kubernetes SD Prometheus is the undisputed king of monitoring in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Its built-in service discovery mechanisms (kubernetes_sd_configs) are brilliant, effortlessly discovering Pods, Services, and Endpoints.…
I came across kagent a couple of weeks ago, but took sometime to test this in my dev Kubernetes cluster. In this latest post, I’m sharing my experience and insights. A simple explanation about this kagent…
In our previous post, we explored how Grafana Alloy acts as a unified agent for both metrics and logs. A key part of that setup involved loki.source.syslog listening for incoming syslog messages on 127.0.0.1:1601. But how do those messages…
In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to use Grafana Alloy — the powerful telemetry agent— to forward local syslog data to Loki, Grafana’s log aggregation system. We’ll also walk through how Alloy collects system metrics and…
Dynamic NFS storage provisioning refers to the automatic creation of persistent storage volumes using an NFS (Network File System) server when a Kubernetes PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) is made. Instead of pre-creating volumes, dynamic provisioning uses a StorageClass…
Welcome to the second part. Here let’s focus on: Install Prometheus SNMP Exporter (Helm): Step1: Create a config map with the snmp file loaded [In Prod, you can use original chart as a sub-chart and build…
I’m writing this blog to guide you through deploying and configuring the Prometheus SNMP Exporter on Kubernetes. While there are several blogs already available on this topic, many don’t cover the real-world challenges that come up…
In modern IT operations, having clear visibility into alerts, events, and incidents across tools is critical for fast resolution and efficient collaboration. Recently, we integrated Opsgenie with MicroFocus(Opentext) OBM and ServiceNow (SNOW) in a way that…
Due to the existing Operations Orchestration (OO) summary report’s data retention being limited to approximately two weeks, which hindered historical analysis requiring at least one month of data, a solution leveraging Operations Bridge Reporter (OBR) was…
Problem Statement We use Policy Templates in Operations Bridge Manager (OBM) to define the details of specific configuration and monitoring tasks. The policy templates once developed, will be deployed to computers that run Operations Agent.In medium…