Measure your golden signals with GKE Managed Prometheus and the nginx-ingress

Mon, 23 May 2022 08:47:02 +0200

Getting started with setting up proper monitoring dashboards for your application and infrastructure can be challenging. Where to begin? My typical answer to such a question would be to start with the “Golden Signals”. This blog post will dive into the golden signals and share how you can get started with these signals in Google Cloud using Managed Prometheus and the nginx-ingress controller.

The Golden Signals #

The four golden signals - coined by the Google SRE book - can be considered a guide as to what at least to monitor for your applications. The golden signals are:

Get insight into your server with Datadog

Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:44:02 +0200

I have been running my blog for a few months now on a DigitalOcean droplet. Apart from the few metrics DigitalOcean provides, I never really had any insight into how my server is performing. This includes metrics like CPU and Memory, but also metrics from the applications I run to host my blog, in particular Nginx, php-fpm and MySQL.

To get more insight into these metrics, I decided to install the Datadog agent on my server. Datadog comes with a large selection of integrations for various different applications, including all the applications I am running. The great thing is that Datadog comes with a free plan for up to 5 hosts, although the biggest downside is that the data retention is only for a single day. It is easy to upgrade to a paid plan however, so I might decide to do that sometime in the future.

Observability on Sander Knape

Measure your golden signals with GKE Managed Prometheus and the nginx-ingress

The Golden Signals #

Get insight into your server with Datadog