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DevOps DailySep 19, 2026 • 9 min read
Your Logs Cost More Than the Service That Emits Them
There is a moment in the life of most engineering teams when somebody in finance asks why the...
#finops#observability#logging#monitoring
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Juan Camilo AuritiSep 24, 2026 • 4 min read
My alert fired 7 times across 1963 pairs. I assumed the thresholds were too high. They were, and it didn't matter
I shipped an alert that tells users when their score drops. Then I checked how often it had actually...
#monitoring#database#sql#webdev
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Vladimir ElchinovSep 24, 2026 • 4 min read
Two Instruments That Cannot Fail Independently Are One Instrument Printed Twice
Yesterday I argued that a zero is only information if something independent proves the counter could...
#webdev#monitoring#debugging#architecture
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Sergey ShinderSep 23, 2026 • 2 min read
The requests our customers gave up on were in none of our numbers
Support told us twice that the mobile app was slow first thing in the morning. Both times I opened.....
#sergeyshinder#observability#monitoring#latency
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Vladimir ElchinovSep 23, 2026 • 3 min read
Nobody Reported a Bug This Week. You Have No Way to Know If That Is Good.
A while back I wrote about [a scheduler of ours that did not run for six days](https://dev.to/sessio...
#webdev#debugging#monitoring#javascript
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Rupa TiwariSep 24, 2026 • 11 min read
MCP Observability: How to Trace Every Tool Call in Production
📖 TL;DR MCP observability means seeing the full path from a prompt, through the model's tool...
#ai#devops#mcp#monitoring
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ilya mozerovSep 22, 2026 • 3 min read
The log that proved my watcher was dead stayed dead when it recovered
I have a health watcher. Every ten minutes it checks ~200 background reflexes and writes a...
#monitoring#debugging#devops#observability
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Ohad FarkashSep 18, 2026 • 5 min read
A Green API Is Not a Working Page
I spent a morning connecting a session-recording tool to OneFindMe, the AliExpress product search...
#webdev#javascript#debugging#monitoring
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shutdown.fyiSep 21, 2026 • 4 min read
Telling censorship from outages: probing Russia's internet from both sides of the border
How shutdown.fyi tells a block from an outage: DNS, TCP, TLS and HTTP from two vantage points, an ho...
#networking#opendata#monitoring#webdev
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Christopher SmithSep 23, 2026 • 6 min read
What Polling, auditd, and eBPF Can See Through Linux RMM Agents
This post first appeared on the ET Ducky blog. I build ET Ducky, an RMM that reads ETW on Windows an...
#linux#ebpf#monitoring#sysadmin
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Sergey ShinderSep 20, 2026 • 2 min read
We spent the first twenty three minutes of an outage reading staging's graphs
Checkout was returning errors for about one request in three and the dashboard in front of four...
#sergeyshinder#observability#grafana#monitoring
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serverkueche.deSep 24, 2026 • 10 min read
Monitoring with Grafana & Prometheus: your server in live dashboards
Uptime Kuma tells you whether a service is running. This stack tells you how it's doing: CPU, RAM,.....
#selfhosted#monitoring#docker
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Mhadley27Sep 18, 2026 • 5 min read
Turning on the Lights
Adding Vulnerability Detection and Compliance Auditing to My SIEM Introduction My name is...
#cybersecurity#devops#monitoring#security
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Chris BJSep 22, 2026 • 6 min read
Teaching Wazuh to watch Windows Defender
Teaching Wazuh to watch Windows Defender Introduction Hello, my name is...
#cybersecurity#monitoring#security
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ilya mozerovSep 22, 2026 • 5 min read
My pose sensor said someone was home. The phone was just on the charger.
I run a small sensor graph that answers one home-automation question: is someone around? It reads...
#sensors#monitoring#iot#debugging
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Ahmed OmeizaSep 21, 2026 • 3 min read
OpenTelemetry in .NET: Stop Guessing What Your Application Is Doing
Your API is slow. But why? Is the database taking too long? Is another service failing? Is an...
#debugging#dotnet#monitoring#performance
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Kamil MysliwiecSep 21, 2026 • 8 min read
How to monitor a NestJS app
How to monitor a NestJS app When something breaks in production, the first question is...
#nestjs#monitoring#telemetry#apm
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Minor KeithSep 21, 2026 • 15 min read
Prometheus node exporter on Ubuntu 26.04, and it scrapes over the private network
Every server I look after eventually gets the same question asked of it: how full is the disk, is it...
#prometheus#monitoring#ubuntu#linux
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payintlabSep 22, 2026 • 3 min read
PSP Change Drift Watch #2: turning the changelog watch into a runnable monitor
What this series does: watch Stripe, PayPal and Adyen for API changes, SDK majors and ecosystem...
#api#automation#monitoring
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Mira JohnSep 19, 2026 • 5 min read
DNS change monitoring: the seven false alarms I had to kill
A client's customer should never be the first person to tell you that the website is unsafe, email i...
#dns#devops#monitoring#python
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Shivanna GundanavarSep 24, 2026 • 4 min read
Azure Operations Copilot in Microsoft Teams - Monitor, Investigate and Understand Azure from One Chat
Azure Operations Copilot for Microsoft Teams Overview Azure administrators currently use multiple.....
#ai#azure#devops#monitoring
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Sergey ShinderSep 19, 2026 • 2 min read
One new label multiplied our metrics by every order we take
On a Friday afternoon a colleague added a label to a counter so he could follow one customer's order...
#sergeyshinder#observability#prometheus#monitoring
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Sanskriti HarmukhSep 23, 2026 • 5 min read
Deploying Uptime Kuma - Self-Hosted Status Page and Monitoring Tool
Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that tracks the availability of websites, APIs, TCP...
#docker#monitoring#selfhosted#traefik
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abhineetSep 20, 2026 • 4 min read
What an AI visibility score hides: mentions, citations, coverage and source evidence are different measurements
A score can be directionally useful and still be operationally incomplete AI visibility...
#ai#analytics#monitoring#seo
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