Category Archives: HOWTO’s

MongoDB: run in Kubernetes with MongoDB Operator and MongoDBCommunity CRD
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24 July 2026

Following up on the previous post Valkey: running in Kubernetes – Helm, monitoring, ACL – we set up Valkey/Redis there, now it’s time to add MongoDB. This is for our new service, which is still in the experimental/PoC phase, but will most likely go to production, so the setup is a bit “under-production” – we’re… Read More: MongoDB: run in Kubernetes with MongoDB Operator and MongoDBCommunity CRD0… »

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Valkey: Deployment in Kubernetes – Helm, Monitoring, ACL
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22 July 2026

We’re launching a new service for the project, and this service needs Redis and MongoDB. The “technical task” itself looks roughly like this: Redis: task queue + some other stuff (e.g. we stream the agent response from LLM to Redis, and if the user is connected on a websocket – then we stream data from… Read More: Valkey: Deployment in Kubernetes – Helm, Monitoring, ACL0 (0) »

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LiteLLM: Monitoring with VictoriaMetrics – Alerts and Grafana
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17 July 2026

This is the second part of the LiteLLM monitoring series – in the previous one, we covered the general integration with VictoriaStack and looked at the metrics and traces we get from LiteLLM (see LiteLLM: metrics, traces, and integration with the VictoriaMetrics Stack). Now let’s move on to the practical part – what to monitor… Read More: LiteLLM: Monitoring with VictoriaMetrics – Alerts and Grafana0 (0) »

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LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration
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9 July 2026

Third part on running LiteLLM – AI Gateway or LLM Proxy, and finally we’re getting to monitoring. In the first part we got familiar with LiteLLM in general (see LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs – overview of features), and in the second one we deployed it in Kubernetes and hooked up VictoriaTraces and VictoriaMetrics to… Read More: LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration0 (0) »

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LiteLLM: AI Gateway on Kubernetes and Metrics in VictoriaMetrics
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26 June 2026

In the first part – LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs – features overview we got familiar with what LiteLLM can do in general – now we can run it in Kubernetes and connect clients. At the same time we’ll check the integration with our existing monitoring stack – for now just metrics to VictoriaMetrics. Logs… Read More: LiteLLM: AI Gateway on Kubernetes and Metrics in VictoriaMetrics0 (0) »

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Claude Code: Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics
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18 June 2026

While working on LiteLLM (see LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs – features overview), I had an idea: besides services like our Backend API, why not also monitor the Claude Code developers? Just out of curiosity – to see what’s going on there in general and how everyone uses our Anthropic Organization, because a lot of… Read More: Claude Code: Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics0 (0) »

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LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs – Features Overview
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4 June 2026

In the previous posts on OpenTelemetry and VictoriaTraces (see OpenTelemetry: OTel Collectors in Kubernetes and integration with the VictoriaMetrics stack and VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability and OpenTelemetry) we covered the general concepts of what observability is and how to work with traces. But this topic actually came up on the project when we realized that using… Read More: LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs – Features Overview0 (0) »

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MikroTik: User Management, access permissions, and SSH
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23 May 2026

Time to finally write up MikroTik and Users Management – this one’s been sitting in drafts for ages, and while I’m at it, I’ll also set up SSH key authentication. Let’s walk through the main concepts and settings of Authentication, Authorization, Accounting in MikroTik – groups, policies, and users. What we have and what needs… Read More: MikroTik: User Management, access permissions, and SSH5 (1) »

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VictoriaTraces: Recording Rules, Metrics, and Alerts from Trace Spans
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22 May 2026

VictoriaTraces – just like VictoriaLogs – supports Recording Rules (see VictoriaMetrics: Recording Rules for AWS Load Balancer logs) for traces, because traces are essentially the same logs, just structured differently. And since we have Recording Rules – we can build metrics out of logs for alerts and Grafana dashboards. Although this actually isn’t the best… Read More: VictoriaTraces: Recording Rules, Metrics, and Alerts from Trace Spans0 (0) »

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Arch Linux: a DNS Mystery – VPN, systemd-resolved, and Unbound
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21 May 2026

I’d been wrestling with the problem of accessing AWS EKS from the office for a long time – finally lost my patience and figured it out 🙂 Here’s the problem: there’s an AWS EKS cluster with both Public and Private endpoints for the API. Working from my office laptop, sometimes requests to it go through… Read More: Arch Linux: a DNS Mystery – VPN, systemd-resolved, and Unbound0… »

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