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Sukhpinder Singh4d ago • 4 min read
.NET 10 ActivitySamplingResult PropagationData: Why Recorded Turns False
.NET 10 changed a small tracing rule that can quietly invalidate a custom sampler. With .NET 10...
#dotnet#csharp#testing#monitoring
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Lily4d ago • 20 min read
exit 0 Lies: A Job That Needed 4,940s in a 2,400s Slot, and the 3-Day Streak That Exposed It
I grew a side hustle from ¥100k a month to ¥600k by stacking gigs, watched it drop to zero overnight...
#automation#python#devops#monitoring
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ilya mozerov2d ago • 8 min read
I fixed the sensor and silently broke the alarm above it
We had a CPU frequency sensor that had printed two lines in its entire life. Both said...
#linux#observability#monitoring#performance
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Igor5d ago • 7 min read
Meet Watchdog: A Small, Safe Bash Watchdog for Linux Services
A service does not have to be large to become operationally important. A small API behind a reverse....
#devops#linux#monitoring#bash
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ilya mozerov5d ago • 6 min read
A perfect separation in your data is a bug in your instrument
I have a poller that watches a wifi link. Every 60 seconds it asks "are we associated?", and when th...
#monitoring#sre#debugging#observability
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ilya mozerov3d ago • 10 min read
"Log this once" is a tense change, not a rate limit
A sensor on my machine returned nothing at all — empty stdout, empty stderr, exit code 2 — on every....
#bash#sre#observability#monitoring
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ilya mozerov5d ago • 8 min read
The 95th percentile is a Gaussian constant, and it moves the wrong way
The knob nobody defends If you have ever measured a tail — p95 latency, a Hill estimator,...
#statistics#monitoring#sre#datascience
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Lily1d ago • 23 min read
How My Own Script Killed Instagram Sessions Every Night: pkill and a Shared Chrome Profile
I built a fleet of 171 automation jobs to grow my business — and one of them was quietly murdering.....
#automation#bash#devops#monitoring
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ilya mozerov6d ago • 8 min read
Your backlog alarm is an accumulation statistic
The alarm that cannot see the thing it is watching I keep a small research tier in a git...
#monitoring#devops#sre#statistics
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Sospeter Kinyanjui1d ago • 5 min read
How Traceroute Actually Works
The Internet is not One Wire When you open a website, it feels instant and it feels like one step.....
#infrastructure#monitoring#networking
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ilya mozerov2d ago • 7 min read
My scanner reported honest coverage every day, and it was the same coverage every day
I have a tool whose whole job is catching tools that lie. The idea is small. A lot of my scripts...
#monitoring#sre#testing#bash
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ilya mozerov5d ago • 11 min read
Your outage monitor under-counts outages and over-states their length, at the same time
I have a poller that watches a wifi link. Every 60 seconds it asks "are we associated?" — if not, it...
#monitoring#sre#observability#networking
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TedAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read
Every Page Returned 200. There Was No Database.
A managed backend paused on free-tier exhaustion, taking Postgres, auth and storage with it. Every r...
#monitoring#devops#webdev#database
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Riley Lin6d ago • 4 min read
Token Forensics: Finding the Process That Ate Your Free Allowance
Three in the morning is when a free tier starts lying to you. Your dashboard shows two hundred...
#ai#python#monitoring#devops
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Merlonix6d ago • 6 min read
A Dead-Man's Switch That Pages Once and Goes Quiet Is Worse Than None. Ours Went Silent for 43 Days.
A heartbeat monitor watches for absence, not presence. The trap is not the check — it is the alert d...
#monitoring#devops#cron#webdev
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waleed abdullahAug 24, 2026 • 4 min read
Troubleshooting APC SMT1500C USB Monitoring on Linux
The APC SMT1500C is a popular 1500VA Smart-UPS used for protecting servers, workstations, networking...
#hardware#linux#monitoring
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Momin Aziz1d ago • 4 min read
Enterprise AI Observability & Optimization (Part 2): Monitor & Observability — Org-Wide Usage, Team Attribution & Real-Time Auditing
In Part 1, we established how to implement a universal capture layer across Gemini CLI, Antigravity,...
#ai#devops#management#monitoring
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jgivati-design18h ago • 3 min read
Three things I got wrong building an n8n monitor
I run a handful of n8n workflows unattended. A few weeks ago I noticed one had been finishing...
#automation#debugging#monitoring#tools
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ilya mozerov6d ago • 5 min read
Your test's OOM kill and a real one look identical — stop telling them apart by size
At 13:33 today a real job on my machine was killed by the kernel for exceeding its memory...
#sre#observability#linux#monitoring
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WWP6d ago • 3 min read
My bot logged a fresh decision every 5 minutes for over an hour. The price it was deciding on never moved once.
Another one from the same one-person-AI-company setup I've written about before: Claude Code builds....
#ai#python#monitoring#opensource
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Saurabh Kumar2d ago • 5 min read
200 OK Does Not Mean Your Service Works
If you have ever built a health check, you have probably written something close to this: const.....
#monitoring#webdev#devops#india
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flurin laim2d ago • 2 min read
Why a ticket-availability monitor is a state machine, not a scraper
A ticket calendar looks like an easy automation target: request a page, search for a date, and send....
#webdev#saas#monitoring#sre
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Sanskriti Harmukh5d ago • 3 min read
Installing Nagios on Ubuntu 24.04
Nagios Core is an open-source monitoring tool for networks, services, and applications, using the...
#monitoring#linux#devops#networking
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arnold infant1d ago • 6 min read
OCI Monitoring Alarms: Six Ways an Alarm Can Look Ready and Still Fail
A practical review of metric timing, query scope, notification delivery, suppression, and operator.....
#oracle#oci#cloud#monitoring
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