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Comment · 11 months ago
We also started with the typical kube-prometheus-stack, but we don’t like Prometheus/PromQL. Moreover, it only solves the „metrics“ part - to handle logs and traces, more quite heavy and complex components have to be added to the observability stack.

This didn‘t feel right, so we looked around and found greptimedb https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb, which simplifies the whole stack. It‘s designed to handle metrics, logs, and traces. We collect metrics and logs via OpenTelemetry, and visualize them with Grafana. It provides endpoints for Postgres, MySQL, PromQL; we‘re happy to be able to build dashboards using SQL as that’s where we have the most knowledge.

The benchmarks look promising, but our k8s clusters aren’t huge anyway. As a platform engineer, we appreciate the simplicity of our observability stack.

Any other happy greptimedb users around here? Together with OTel, we think we can handle all future obs needs.

Comment · 2 years ago
I also heart about lakeFS for data versioning on S3 object stores. Is DVC a contender in this area?
Comment · 3 years ago
I recommend using your preferred flavor of configuration management tool. It is tricky, especially when you want to provision multiple users in different Grafana organizations, data sources, and their dashboards, but it can be done (I prefer Puppet because of its flexible language, but Ansible should also work).
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Comment · 3 years ago
I also started with that stack, but swapped out InfluxDB for Postgres + TimescaleDB extension, which adds timeseries workflows (transparent partitioning, compression, data retention, continuous aggregates, …).

I found InfluxDB to be lacking in terms of permissions management, flexibility regarding queries (SQL, joins), data retention, ability to debug problems. In Postgres, for example, I can look into the execution plan of a statement, log long running queries, and so on.

Telegraf as an agent is very flexible; it has input plugins for every task I could want, and besides it’s default „pull workflow“ (checks on defined interval) I also like to push new metrics directly to the Telegraf inputs.socket plugin from my scripts (backup stats, …).

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Also not a fan of the touchbar, but since I learned that you can tap on volume and immediately slide left/right, it's ok for me.
Comment · 6 years ago
In the meantime, you could use the version shipped with macOS:

    ▶ ruby -v
    ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.arm64e-darwin20]
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Comment · 8 years ago
https://avogadrocorp.com/ immediately came to mind:

> David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.

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