Tag:observability

All the articles with the tag "observability".

• Dialling In Espresso, and Sending the Whole House to ClickHouse

  Posted on:June 20, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM (15 min read)

  A grind-and-dose UX on the espresso machine, a custom OpenTelemetry Collector that funnels the whole house into ClickHouse, finer-grained shot exports, and a LibreChat agent that reads the data and roasts my coffee.

• I Put OpenTelemetry in My Espresso Machine (and You Can Too)

  Posted on:June 14, 2026 |  at 03:00 PM (13 min read)

  How I put OpenTelemetry on an ESP32-powered espresso machine. Metrics, traces, and exemplars on a microcontroller, and the embedded gotchas along the way.

• Systems Observability - Determining SLIs, SLOs, and Introducing Error Budgets

  Posted on:May 21, 2019 |  at 07:30 PM (8 min read)

  Monitoring isn't just a 'finger in the air' way of determining the health of our applications. It also needs to be an actionable indicator of the reliability of our systems.

• Systems Observability - What To Consider Before Writing Your First Line of Code

  Posted on:April 7, 2019 |  at 11:30 AM (13 min read)

  Before even beginning to set things up, we should understand what makes good monitoring, logging, and alerting.