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VictoriaMetrics<p>Tired of fighting with SNMP and confusing network data? 😤<br>Join our "Nonsense Networking" live stream where we make sense of network <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metrics</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/logs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logs</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flows</span></a>. We'll cover the common pain points and show you better alternatives.</p><p>📅 August 28th at 10 am PDT | 6 pm BST | 7 pm CEST</p><p><a href="https://bit.ly/45ykGpy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/45ykGpy</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NetworkMonitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkMonitoring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SNMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SNMP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Netflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netflow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a></p>
babble encat<p>Is <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> still good for monitoring? <br>I used it at work years ago and I found it easy to hook up</p><p>Now I'm doing some self hosting and I'd like a few graphs to show the load on <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Caddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caddy</span></a> and <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/Forgejo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Forgejo</span></a> and my own apps and the system as a whole if I can</p><p>I remember writing a metrics endpoint once and it seemed pretty easy</p>
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bagder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bagder</span></a></span> we don't have a bounty for <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> and still get bullshit email all the time.</p>
"Musty Bits" McGee<p>Where do I put `and sum(pve_lock_state{state="backup"}) == 0` in this thing? All the obvious spots don't return anything</p><p>`(rate(node_disk_read_time_seconds_total[1m]) / rate(node_disk_reads_completed_total[1m]) &gt; 0.1 and rate(node_disk_reads_completed_total[1m]) &gt; 0) * on(instance) group_left (nodename) node_uname_info{nodename=~".+"}`</p><p><a href="https://eigenmagic.net/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> <a href="https://eigenmagic.net/tags/Observability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Observability</span></a></p>
Gary Parker :party_porg:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gts.superseriousbusiness.org/@dumpsterqueer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dumpsterqueer</span></a></span> hey there, I've been running <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/gotosocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gotosocial</span></a> for a little while now and want to know more about what it's doing behind the scenes (database size, storage, federation, etc.)</p><p>I've set up a <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> container and successfully connected it to my <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/GTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GTS</span></a> server, but I'm completely new to Prometheus and don't where to go from here.</p><p>Are there any example queries online I can refer to, or a schema for the database populated by the GTS metrics scraping?</p>
Jimmy B. :boba_tea:<p>I've essentially wasted the entire day messing around with <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Blocky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blocky</span></a>, setting up <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Telegraf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telegraf</span></a> and building a dashboard from the Blocky data. I definitely did NOT need to be working on that... :nkoCrying: :nkoFacePalm: </p><p><a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grafana</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/InfluxDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfluxDB</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a></p>
Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️<p>Maybe, instead of trying to do my own version of reinventing the wheel I really should just stick with what is out there:</p><p><a href="https://fedi.kcore.org/tags/nodeExporter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodeExporter</span></a>, <a href="https://fedi.kcore.org/tags/prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prometheus</span></a>, pre-made <a href="https://fedi.kcore.org/tags/grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grafana</span></a> dashboards.</p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DidYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DidYouKnow</span></a>: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine tree in Wheeler Peak in Nevada, USA. The tree, which was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000, was cut down in 1964.</p><p>Bristlecone pines are said to be the oldest known living trees. </p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/64cf3ac210c4dc6c4fd4b8eb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/64cf</span><span class="invisible">3ac210c4dc6c4fd4b8eb</span></a></p>
Cees-Jan Kiewiet :rp: :wm:<p>Phew, managed to get rid of most of the <a href="https://toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us/tags/Kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kubernetes</span></a> metrics I don't use in <a href="https://toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us/tags/Grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grafana</span></a>. (And stay within the free tier.) Can strip off even more, but either need to do this on <a href="https://toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a>, or try my hand at <a href="https://toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us/tags/OTEL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTEL</span></a> collector filtering:</p>
Tom<p>Questions for <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a> folk who run <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prometheus</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grafana</span></a> on multiple <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/aws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aws</span></a> accounts:</p><p>Do you use a single Prometheus server or do you have one for each account?</p><p>How do you handle auto scaling EC2 servers which could change IPs at any time? </p><p>Is it possible for servers to push rather than get pulled from?</p><p>Please share any setups that could be relevant and boost far &amp; wide!</p><p>Thanks in advance!! ❤️❤️❤️</p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 "Fear is the "Thief of Dreams," says <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> Priest <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/AntoniusSubia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntoniusSubia</span></a>. Today's <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Scorpio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scorpio</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/FirstQuarter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstQuarter</span></a> Moon (the "Thief Moon" in <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinoos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antinoos</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/MoonMagic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoonMagic</span></a>) empowers sacred thieves following in the footsteps of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> and <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Theseus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Theseus</span></a>. Take back what is yours: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/07/tonight-is-moon-of-prometheus-scorpio.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/07/tonight-is-moon-of-prometheus-scorpio.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
Schenkl | 🏳️‍🌈🦄<p>Ich monitore Docker Umgebungen gerne via <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/cadvisor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cadvisor</span></a> und <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grafana</span></a>.</p><p>Gerade aus Spaß mal <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Telegraf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telegraf</span></a> statt <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/cadvisor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cadvisor</span></a> zum sammeln von Container Metriken eingebaut und die gleichen Werte erwartet...</p><p>Aber die Werte sind bei weitem nicht gleich!</p><p>Telegraf zeigt mir wesentlich geringere Werte an als der cadvisor...</p><p>Hat da eins Erfahrungen mit?</p><p>Welchem Collector will ich eher trauen?</p>
VictoriaMetrics<p>🚀 New Feature Alert!<br>We've added Prometheus Histogram support (with le buckets) to the VictoriaMetrics/metrics package! </p><p>🔧 Highlights:<br>✅ Switch to a lightweight metrics library<br>✅ Choose between classical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> or precise <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VictoriaMetrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaMetrics</span></a> histograms<br>✅ Fully compatible with Prometheus monitoring setups</p><p>Thanks to Clément Nussbaumer for the contribution! </p><p><a href="https://clement.n8r.ch/en/articles/victoriametrics-metrics-prometheus-histogram-support/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">clement.n8r.ch/en/articles/vic</span><span class="invisible">toriametrics-metrics-prometheus-histogram-support/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monitoring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/devtools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devtools</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>golang</span></a></p>
Frederic<p>The <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Aquara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aquara</span></a> temperature sensor on my balkony is flaky. Every couple of weeks it just disappears for no apparent reason. So I spent my morning figuring out how to enable <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> metrics in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a> and wrote an alerting rule to get a notification on my phone via my local ntfy instance.</p><p>Yay, computers. 🙈</p>
Cees-Jan Kiewiet :rp: :wm:<p>Still have to implement the <a href="https://toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAssistant</span></a> <a href="https://toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us/tags/prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prometheus</span></a>/#OTEL export to make <a href="https://toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us/tags/Keda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Keda</span></a> be able to do this.</p><p>Plus, I still need to get a decent autoscaler in place. But first, to blog about my current one. Main "issue" is that my current one only takes one node offline every cron job run. So to take 5 dow,n it needs 50 minutes. </p><p>That is not ideal when it gets hotter than desired, but doable when it's mainly idle nodes. This plays in directly with <a href="https://blog.wyrihaximus.net/2024/12/building-a-kubernetes-homelab-with-raspberry-pies-and-lego-nodes-enclosure/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.wyrihaximus.net/2024/12/b</span><span class="invisible">uilding-a-kubernetes-homelab-with-raspberry-pies-and-lego-nodes-enclosure/</span></a></p>
OpenTelemetry<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenTelemetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenTelemetry</span></a> resource attributes and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a>. </p><p>You know it and we know it: they don't always play well together. </p><p>This year, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LFX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LFX</span></a> mentee Victoria Nduka researched how Prometheus handles <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OTel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTel</span></a> resource attributes and how we can improve the user experience. Read our latest blog post to learn about her research findings and insightful recommendations. <a href="https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ux-research-prometheus-otel/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ux-</span><span class="invisible">research-prometheus-otel/</span></a></p>
Anton<p>"We’re writing to remind you that as of October 22, 2024, Monitoring Query Language (MQL) is no longer a recommended query language for Cloud Monitoring. We made this change to focus on PromQL, the open-source standard for time series querying, which offers similar functionality, a wider user base, and more community resources."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleCloud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PromQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PromQL</span></a></p>
VictoriaMetrics<p>🚀 Scaling Pingcap <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TiDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TiDB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/observability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>observability</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VictoriaMetrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaMetrics</span></a> has been a game-changer! Thanks to the PingCAP team for sharing their experience!</p><p>✅ 50% lower CPU usage <br>✅ 35% less memory, eliminating OOM crashes <br>✅ Query time reduced from 40 mins to 3 mins </p><p>PingCAP clients, like Pinterest, are thriving with a faster, more resilient monitoring stack! Curious about the switch? Read more 👇<br><a href="https://hubs.li/Q03xWpnp0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hubs.li/Q03xWpnp0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scalability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scalability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SRE</span></a></p>
Pyrzout :vm:<p>Freezer Monitoring: Because Ice Cream Is a Dish Best Served Cold <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/21/freezer-monitoring-because-ice-cream-is-a-dish-best-served-cold/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/07/21/freeze</span><span class="invisible">r-monitoring-because-ice-cream-is-a-dish-best-served-cold/</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/RaspberryPiZero2W" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPiZero2W</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prometheus</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/homehacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homehacks</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/DS18B20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DS18B20</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grafana</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Freezer Monitoring: Because Ice Cream Is a Dish Best Served Cold - [Scott Baker] wrote in to let us know about his freezer monitor.<br>After a regrettab... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/21/freezer-monitoring-because-ice-cream-is-a-dish-best-served-cold/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/07/21/freeze</span><span class="invisible">r-monitoring-because-ice-cream-is-a-dish-best-served-cold/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/raspberrypizero2w" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypizero2w</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prometheus</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/homehacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homehacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ds18b20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ds18b20</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grafana</span></a></p>