A production-engineering deep dive into container running, healthy and useful are three different states, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
A production-engineering deep dive into how cadvisor became one of my largest workloads, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
Observability can become the workload if collection is broader than the questions operators actually need to answer.
A production-engineering deep dive into how i took cadvisor from ~428 mib to ~20–28 mib, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
The fastest observability optimization came from identifying one costly collector instead of globally lowering fidelity.
A production-engineering deep dive into a docker storage cache needs its own freshness metric, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
A production-engineering deep dive into restart counts without context create noise, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
The production monitoring stack measured roughly 428 MiB of cAdvisor memory with filesystem disk collection enabled on a small host.
A production-engineering deep dive into memory limit utilization vs working set: which one should page me?, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
A production-engineering deep dive into oom events are better evidence than “high memory” alone, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
A production-engineering deep dive into docker filesystem scanning was more expensive than the metric was worth, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
A production-engineering deep dive into container block i/o and i/o pressure tell different stories, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.
A production-engineering deep dive into monitoring tax: why exporters need resource budgets, grounded in the 2014 Mac mini hserver observability stack and its accepted runtime evidence.