Issue 263
So many wonderful, deeply technical posts in our issue today. One of those rare weeks where I learned something from literally every story. Enjoy! 🐰📈🍩
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From The Community
Building a network topology of a Kubernetes application in a non-intrusive way
A fascinating rabbit hole of eBPF probes, iptables, and packet headers to map Kubernetes application traffic without client instrumentation.
How We Built the Datadog Heatmap to Visualize Distributions Over Time at Arbitrary Scale
Excellent post from Datadog on the design of their heatmaps and how to decipher the details in the underlying unaggregated data.
Organizing your Grafana k6 performance testing suite: Best practices to get started
We haven’t covered k6 much here, but it’s an awesome project for benchmarking APIs and websites, which can in turn be used to drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Logging without Compromising Performance
Performance tips for developers worried about their loggers. Some excellent pointers that are also pretty universal across programming languages.
Observability — Beyond the Single Pane of Glass
While this post feels like it was written for CIOs, there’s a surprising breadth of product knowledge and considerations for Observability teams planning for growth.
Events as the 4th pillar of Booking Observability platform
A look at one of Booking.com’s custom observability solutions, why it exists, and reasons they’re evaluating OpenTelemetry as a possible replacement.
How to improve the visibility of system internals
How to instrument your web application stack using the RED method, Prometheus and Grafana. I like that the author even thought to include generation examples using Grafanalib.
The Promise and Peril of JSON logging
Some of the advantages and drawbacks of JSON logging at scale.
Persistent Data Structures in VictoriaMetrics (Part 1): vmagent
The beginnings of a series diving into the internals of VictoriaMetrics, for anyone looking to contribute or just wanting a better understanding of its system design.
Tools
“A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript”
Events
Monitorama PDX 2024 - Coming Soon!
Monitorama organizers released the upcoming speakers list and agenda for this year’s upcoming PDX 2024. Exciting to see so many unique topics, I can feel the FOMO rising already. 😅
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See you next week!
– Jason (@obfuscurity) Monitoring Weekly Editor