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OpenTelemetry: Where the SQL Is Better Than the Original

25 May 2022 5 min read

How does OpenTelemetry differ from previous observability tools? And can these differences open a new path to an old friend as a unified query language for telemetry data?

OpenTelemetry: Where the SQL Is Better Than the Original

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How NLP Cloud Monitors Their Language AI API

24 May 2022 5 min read

This blog post could almost have been written by the API that our friends at NLP Cloud created. But it wasn’t. 😎 Read how NLP Cloud monitors their API, which allows customers to add language AI to their apps in several programming languages without having to handle MLOps.

How NLP Cloud Monitors Their Language AI API

Kubernetes Observability in One Command: How to Generate and Store OpenTelemetry Traces Automatically

Kubernetes Observability in One Command: How to Generate and Store OpenTelemetry Traces Automatically

20 May 2022 9 min read

Instrumenting your code with OpenTelemetry traces is a manual effort that requires considerable time and effort. With tobs, OpenTelemetry Operator, and Promscale, you can deploy—with a single command— a complete pre-configured observability stack in Kubernetes.

How We Built Alert Rules, Runbooks, and Dashboards to Observe Our Observability Tool

How We Built Alert Rules, Runbooks, and Dashboards to Observe Our Observability Tool

19 May 2022 10 min read

The latest Promscale release comes with a set of alert rules, runbooks, and a dashboard that encapsulates the team’s best practices to monitor and troubleshoot Promscale.

Get Down(sampled) With Prometheus Recording Rules in Promscale

Get Down(sampled) With Prometheus Recording Rules in Promscale

18 May 2022 4 min read

You can now configure Recording Rules directly in Promscale using PromQL and the same configuration file you would use in Prometheus!

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No-Fuss Alerting: Introducing Prometheus Alerts in Promscale

No-Fuss Alerting: Introducing Prometheus Alerts in Promscale

17 May 2022 4 min read

Promscale now supports Prometheus alerting! You can directly configure Promscale alerts using PromQL queries to get notified when any of your metrics goes off, helping you identify anomalies early.

Observability Powered by SQL: Understand Your Systems Like Never Before With OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL

Observability Powered by SQL: Understand Your Systems Like Never Before With OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL

16 May 2022 13 min read

Learn how observability powered by SQL can help you unveil performance issues in your distributed systems, courtesy of the now generally available OpenTelemetry tracing support in Promscale.

Five Lessons for Managing Growth and Career Development in Software Companies

Five Lessons for Managing Growth and Career Development in Software Companies

12 May 2022 12 min read

Managing career growth and development can be tricky, especially in fast-paced software companies. Drawing from personal experience, Timescale’s VP of Engineering shares five lessons for healthy and productive organizations.

A Deep Dive Into OpenTelemetry Metrics

A Deep Dive Into OpenTelemetry Metrics

10 May 2022 11 min read

An introduction to the OpenTelemetry metrics standard. This post is the second of a three-part series on all things metrics.

Point-in-Time PostgreSQL Database and Query Monitoring With pg_stat_statements

Point-in-Time PostgreSQL Database and Query Monitoring With pg_stat_statements

3 May 2022 15 min read

The pg_stat_statements extension strikes again. Learn how to store metrics snapshots regularly and move from static, cumulative information to time-series data for more efficient database monitoring.

Teaching Elephants to Fish

Teaching Elephants to Fish

27 Apr 2022 13 min read

Timescale's developer advocate Ryan Booz reflects on the PostgreSQL community and shares five ideas on how to improve it.

How Edeva Uses Continuous Aggregations and IoT to Build Smarter Cities

How Edeva Uses Continuous Aggregations and IoT to Build Smarter Cities

22 Apr 2022 8 min read

Swedish company Edeva is making a real impact in city life by quickly presenting decision-makers with trends based on IoT data.

A Deep Dive Into the Four Types of Prometheus Metrics

A Deep Dive Into the Four Types of Prometheus Metrics

14 Apr 2022 13 min read

In this introduction to the different open-source metrics standards, we focus on the Prometheus metric types. This post is the first of a three-part series on all things metrics.

OpenTelemetry and Python: A Complete Instrumentation Guide

OpenTelemetry and Python: A Complete Instrumentation Guide

23 Mar 2022 15 min read

Learn how to instrument Python code with OpenTelemetry, both manually and using auto-instrumentation.

Automated Mocking Using API Traffic: Speedscale's Story

Automated Mocking Using API Traffic: Speedscale's Story

15 Mar 2022 7 min read

Learn how Speedscale architected its data stack to help Kubernetes engineering teams validate the performance of a new code in production-like conditions.

CloudQuery on Using PostgreSQL for Cloud Assets Visibility

CloudQuery on Using PostgreSQL for Cloud Assets Visibility

1 Mar 2022 5 min read

Our friends from CloudQuery join us to share how they've set up their data stack to extract, transform, and load cloud assets data into normalized PostgreSQL tables.

How to Build TimescaleDB on Docker

How to Build TimescaleDB on Docker

25 Feb 2022 9 min read

Are you building TimescaleDB in Docker? This blog post walks you through everything you need to know, including step-by-step instructions and best practices.

Learn OpenTelemetry Tracing With This Lightweight Microservices Demo

Learn OpenTelemetry Tracing With This Lightweight Microservices Demo

24 Feb 2022 26 min read

Deploy this simple microservices demo and learn how to get unprecedented insights about your systems! The demo application is instrumented with OpenTelemetry, and it includes six powerful Grafana dashboards built with traces and SQL.