• Pawel Adamski

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The Load Average Obsession and Better Monitoring

The Load Average Obsession and Better Monitoring

by Pawel | May 27, 2020 | monitoring, prometheus, sysadmin

I'm sure every system engineer knows of the load average. Let's talk on why it might be misguided to rely on it being the sole performance metric and how to find better metrics. Stop obsessing over load averages There is a lot of obsession in the industry about...
Using The Curl HTTP Exporter for Website Availability Monitoring

Using The Curl HTTP Exporter for Website Availability Monitoring

by Pawel | Mar 31, 2019 | monitoring, prometheus, sysadmin

You are likely familiar with the awesome Prometheus Blackbox Exporter. The exporter works great for monitoring availability of ICMP, HTTP(S), TCP and DNS targets. That said, when monitoring websites, I have found that it would be very helpful to provide insight as to...
Using The Curl HTTP Exporter for Website Availability Monitoring

Exporting Prometheus Metrics with Bash Scripts

by Pawel | Dec 23, 2018 | monitoring, prometheus, sysadmin

Prometheus has a lot of exporters available. Sometimes, however, you may want to export data to Prometheus as quickly as possible. I have given it some thought and have come up with a relatively simple approach to building a listening exporter. My thought process/plan...
Using The Curl HTTP Exporter for Website Availability Monitoring

Simple Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Node Exporter on CentOS 7

by Pawel | Apr 27, 2018 | monitoring, prometheus, sysadmin

Prometheus. A Time Series database that is aimed at storing metrics. I'm going to be giving you a quick start on getting it running without digging too deep into how it works (it'd be no fun exploring it if I just explained everything, right?). As always, please see...