Ramon Guiu - Timescale Blog

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

19 May 2022 9 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.

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.

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.

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.

What Are Traces, and How SQL (Yes, SQL) and OpenTelemetry Can Help Us Get More Value Out of Traces to Build Better Software

11 Oct 2021 25 min read

Promscale, the observability backend powered by SQL, now includes support for collecting traces via OpenTelemetry in beta.