Monitoring on Nicole van der Hoeven

Meta-monitoring Loki (Loki Community Call May 2025)

Mon, 12 May 2025 17:59:48 +0100

In this Loki Community Call, we talk about the need for meta-monitoring Loki: why Loki needs to be monitored, what to watch out for, and how to do it. We talk about different ways to get information from Loki that allow you to make it reliable, consistent, and performant, including a Helm chart to deploy a meta-monitoring stack on Kubernetes. We discuss the Loki mixin for Grafana and how to use it to visualize data about Loki. On the call are Jay Clifford, Nicole van der Hoeven, and Dylan Guedes from Grafana Labs.

Best Practices for Recording and Alerting (Loki Community Call February 2025)

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:54:15 +0100

In this Loki Community Call, we talk about the best practices for recording and alerting rules with Loki Staff Engineer George Robinson and Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven. Ever wondered what’s the difference between the Ruler and Alertmanager? 🤔 Curious about the different modes the Ruler can run in when querying Loki? Want to avoid the most common pitfalls when setting up alerting and recording rules? We cover all of these, including optimizing rule performance to structure alerts effectively.

How to Avoid the Most Common Kubernetes Monitoring Mistakes

Tue, 16 May 2023 22:41:16 +1000

For ObservabilityCON on the Road Singapore 2023, I talked about some mistakes people make when monitoring applications within Kubernetes clusters. I also demonstrated Grafana’s Kubernetes Monitoring solution and how it can be a shortcut for engineers looking to get started quickly.

Resources

Slides here
Monitoring Kubernetes in general (notes)
The Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring feature (notes)