Prometheus

Ai Alerting Analytics Architecture Best-Practices Burn-Rate Business Calculator Cardinality-Audit Clickhouse Cloudfront Cloudwatch Cost-Audit Cost-Optimization Dashboards Devops Epistemology Error-Budget Grafana Incident-Response Json Json-Extraction Kpi Lambda Log-Levels Logging Mcp Mental-Frameworks Metrics Monitoring Observability Philosophy Prometheus Protip Roi S3queue Savings Scientific-Method Serverless Sla Sli Slo Sre Structured-Logging Syslog Tsdb

What Really Is a Metric?

February 2, 2026 o11y metrics prometheus observability tsdb

A metric isn’t just any number. It’s a specific data type with strengths, weaknesses, and trade-offs. Here’s what you need to know.

featured image slo-management-social.png

SLI/SLO/SLA Management & Alerting Design

January 28, 2026 services slo sli sla prometheus alerting error-budget burn-rate

Stop drowning in alert noise. Build SLO-based monitoring that focuses on customer impact. Free Prometheus Alert Generator tool included. Start with a free discovery call.

featured image prometheus-memory-preview.png

Right-Size Your Prometheus Memory: Calculator & Rule of Thumb

October 9, 2025 o11y prometheus protip

Stop guessing at Prometheus memory. Use this calculator to right-size your deployment in seconds.

featured image prometheus-alert-generator-blog-hero.png

Battle-Tested SLO Monitoring: Introducing Our Free Prometheus Alert Generator

October 6, 2025 o11y prometheus_alert_generator prometheus slo

Efficient error budget tracking with Riemann Sum-inspired recording rules for high-scale Prometheus deployments.