Monitoring on Sagar Panda | DevOps & Cloud Infra Engineer

Seeing Inside Amazon EKS with OpenTelemetry 🔍

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:45:10 +0530

Why This Setup?

Before getting into the architecture, a few quick notes. Telemetry goes to both New Relic and Honeycomb to test OpenTelemetry’s backend-independence promise and compare the two. New Relic wins on day-to-day usability — dashboards, APM, and alerts work intuitively. Honeycomb takes more getting used to, but its MCP server is where it genuinely shines: connected to Claude, you can ask plain-English questions against live telemetry — no NRQL or PromQL required. That’s the part worth jumping to 👇 first if you’re short on time.

Hands-On OpenTelemetry: Prometheus, Jaeger, Grafana and the OTel Demo

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:10:10 +0530

Preface

In the previous article, we covered the core observability concepts theoretically. The next step is exploring them practically using the OpenTelemetry Demo application.

The goal here is not to memorize PromQL syntax, but to understand how telemetry actually appears inside a real observability platform. So, let’s get started.

Observability 101: Understanding Metrics, Traces and Logs

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:10 +0530

Introduction

Most engineers encounter observability only after something breaks.

You are deep in the zone on a new feature when an urgent incident gets escalated. The report from customer support is notoriously vague:

 
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"The website is slow."
"Checkout is failing."
"The API is timing out."
"The website is slow."
"Checkout is failing."
"The API is timing out."

The challenge in modern systems is rarely fixing the bug once you find it. The real headache is finding where the problem lives in the first place.

Monitoring Kubernetes Cluster with Prometheus and Grafana

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:26:10 +0530

Introduction:

Keeping an eye on your Kubernetes cluster can feel like a daunting task, but with the right tools, it doesn’t have to be. Prometheus and Grafana – two fantastic open-source tools that make monitoring and visualizing your cluster easy.

Visualize Your Website Metrics — Blackbox Exporter and Grafana

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:30:10 +0530

In the previous post we discussed sending email alerts with alertmanager, in this post we’ll configure the Prometheus Blackbox Exporter.

You can find the repository on Github .

Setup

BlackBox exporter is a monitoring tool that allows querying of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, etc.

How to Send Email Alerts using Prometheus AlertManager

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:30:10 +0530

This is the 2nd article, to setup Prometheus with Node exporter and Grafana refer this article, Setup Monitoring — Prometheus and Grafana.

You can find the repository on Github .

The Prometheus Alertmanager is a tool for sending alerts via emails, slack and various other mediums.

Setup Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:30:10 +0530

Introduction:

Prometheus is a open-source platform for monitoring hardware and services. It collects metrics from the system of any other services that we configured.

It has a querying language called PromQL to analyse the metrics. We can also configure mail alerts for situation like hight resources usage, SSL expiration etc.