Tag: grafana

Prometheus recording rules precompute the expensive queries behind your Grafana panels. Learn naming, chaining, testing with promtool, and when to skip them.

Your Grafana dashboard is a wall of 50 panels nobody reads. Use USE and RED to cut it to ten, move the rest to drill-downs, and keep the result in git.

Store years of sensor data with InfluxDB. Skip the 10-day limit, query historical trends, build Grafana dashboards for your home lab.

Distributed tracing with Tempo and Grafana for self-hosted multi-service stacks. OpenTelemetry, sampling, exemplars, and when tracing actually matters at home scale.

SigNoz gives you logs, metrics, and traces in one ClickHouse-backed app. The Grafana LGTM stack gives you four. Here's how to pick the right one.

ClickHouse can store TB of logs on one node, query in seconds, and outscale Loki and Elasticsearch in raw cost. Here's how to wire it up with Vector and Grafana.

When Prometheus is overkill: a push-based metrics stack for IoT, smart home, and homelab data. Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana, working together end-to-end.

Promtail is deprecated. Here's how to migrate your scrape configs, pipeline stages, and Docker log setups to Grafana Alloy without losing your mind or data.

Grafana Agent hit EOL in November 2025. Here is how to migrate all your monitoring nodes to Alloy without losing your mind, your metrics, or your dashboards.

OpenTelemetry plus the Grafana LGTM stack gives you Datadog-class traces, metrics, and logs for $0/month. Deploy an OTel Collector and instrument your app fast.

Build one Grafana dashboard that adapts to any host or environment using variables, query, custom, constant, and multi-select types with real examples.

Logs, metrics, and traces for Docker containers, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to know what's happening inside your stack.