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Mikel Jason Münnekhoff

Using Renovate to scale up automatic pull request creation on GitHub

See how we use the dependency update tool Renovate to distribute helm charts with ArgoCD applications in a GitOps fashion. This article shows how to set up Renovate for several kubernetes clusters with a centralized configuration as a GitHub action.

22.08.2023

Mikel Jason Münnekhoff

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Transitioning from Prometheus to OpenTelemetry - A Journey of a Cluster's Metrics Evolution

Part 1: A Brief Introduction

With this blog post, we kick off a series on evolving our Kubernetes metrics stack. Our journey to replace Prometheus with an OpenTelemetry solution begins with an introduction OpenTelemetry and why we see it as a valid alternative to our current implementation. After explaining the main parts of the OpenTelemetry project and briefly reviewing its history, we discuss the pros and cons. After reading this, you will be able to follow along our hands-on and deep-tech posts on how we optimize our metrics stack.

19.01.2024

Mikel Jason Münnekhoff, Sherief Ahmed

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Transitioning from Prometheus to OpenTelemetry - A Journey of a Cluster's Metrics Evolution

Part 2: Scraping The First Metrics

Having explained the technical implementation of the monitoring stack in our latest blog post, this article focuses on replacing Prometheus with OpenTelemetry Collector to decouple scraping from the storage and query mechanisms. The OpenTelemetry Collector uses various building blocks to construct the telemetry pipeline and requires enabling of the target allocator. Guiding you through this process we provide various practical tips, including processor ordering and horizontal autoscaling."

03.06.2024

Sherief Ahmed, Mikel Jason Münnekhoff

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Transitioning from Prometheus to OpenTelemetry - A Journey of a Cluster's Metrics Evolution

Part 3: Enabling annotation-based scraping

After showing how to get an OpenTelemetry Collector to support Prometheus CRDs as scrape targets, we discover how to integrate another well-known approach to mark workloads as scrape targets. Now, we focus on annotation-based scraping - what is it, when would we want to use it and how can we integrate it in our OpenTelemetry stack? In this article, we provide answers to all these questions, and more.

02.08.2024

Mikel Jason Münnekhoff, Sherief Ahmed

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