Tag: #cardinality
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 2 posts
Designing Prometheus Metrics That Answer Questions — Choosing Types, Cardinality Budgets, and the Traps in rate and Quantiles
More metrics is not better — a metric earns its keep only by answering a question. This post starts by laying out which questions counters, gauges, and histograms each answer, and which calculations become impossible in
2026-08-02 · 17 min read #observability#prometheus#promql#metrics#cardinalityPrometheus in Production: TSDB, Cardinality, Recording Rules, Federation, and Remote Write
A practical Prometheus operations guide covering TSDB retention, high-cardinality control, recording and alerting rule design, and when to choose federation versus remote write.
2026-03-17 · 5 min read #prometheus#observability#tsdb#cardinality#recording-rules