Tag: monitoring

Alert Fatigue: Why Your Alerts Are Meaningless

You get 50 alerts a day and ignore all of them. That's not monitoring, that's noise. Here's how to build alerts people actually care about.

Prometheus Scrape Intervals: The Hidden Tradeoff

Shorter intervals = more data. But also more storage, CPU load, and potential instability. Here's the tradeoff you're actually making.

Uptime Kuma: Status Pages, Alerts, and Knowing Before Your Users Do

Advanced Uptime Kuma setup: TCP/DNS/Docker monitors, push monitors, Telegram alerts, public status pages, maintenance windows, and Docker Compose with backups.

Docker Health Checks: Because "It's Running" Doesn't Mean "It's Working"

Docker health checks for Dockerfiles and Compose: configure HEALTHCHECK for PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, and Node.js with intervals, retries, and depends_on.

Prometheus + Grafana on Docker: Know When Your Server Is Crying Before It Dies

Set up a self-hosted Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stack with Docker Compose. Stop flying blind, get metrics, dashboards, and alerts in under 30 minutes.

Plausible vs Umami: Privacy-Friendly Analytics That Won't Creep Out Your Users

Compare Plausible vs Umami for self-hosted, privacy-friendly web analytics. Ditch Google Analytics and keep your users' data off ad networks.

Docker Healthcheck Patterns That Actually Work

Master Docker HEALTHCHECK syntax. Learn what checks work, how to tune interval/timeout/retries, and integrate with orchestration.

Uptime Monitoring with Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma monitors your services and sends alerts when they go down, beautiful self-hosted alternative to UptimeRobot.

Observability and Monitoring for Containers

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