Tag Archives: Grafana

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 »

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VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry
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19 May 2026

On the project, we’ve gradually grown to the point where it’s time to have proper tracing – to build real observability, not just monitoring. A long time ago I did something similar with Jaeger – a monster, and it kind of stayed in my drafts from 2019 or 2020. Since right now our entire stack… Read More »

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VictoriaMetrics: Basic Monitoring for AWS, Linux, NGINX, and PHP
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28 March 2026

The RTFM migration from DigitalOcean to AWS went smoothly, and I’m gradually settling in. New infrastructure, everything new – so for the first while I want to keep a close eye on the server and blog state, which means setting up basic monitoring for WordPress: NGINX, PHP-FPM, the database, and the infrastructure running it all.… Read More »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 11 – extended monitoring with additional exporters
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10 February 2026

In the previous post FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, we configured VictoriaMetrics, node_exporter, Grafana and created a basic dashboard and basic alerts. Now, I want to add a bit more monitoring – to see process CPU/RAM data, SMART information, and ZFS details. Everything written here has been added to… Read More »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana
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7 February 2026

Finally got around to monitoring. I was interested in running a standard stack with VictoriaMetrics + Grafana + Alertmanager not in the usual Kubernetes with a Helm chart, but simply on the host. However, the approach is the same as monitoring services in AWS/Kubernetes – on FreeBSD, we will have VictoriaMetrics for metrics, Grafana for… Read More »

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AWS: Monitoring AWS OpenSearch Service cluster with CloudWatch
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1 November 2025

Let’s continue our journey with AWS OpenSearch Service. What we have is a small AWS OpenSearch Service cluster with three data nodes, used as a vector store for AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Previous parts: AWS: Introduction to OpenSearch Service as a vector store AWS: Creating an OpenSearch Service cluster and configuring authentication and authorization Terraform:… Read More »

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Vector.dev: introduction, AWS S3 logs, and integration with VictoriaLogs
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21 December 2024

So, we’re back to the topic of AWS VPC Flow Logs, VictoriaLogs, and the Grafana dashboard. In the post VictoriaLogs: a Grafana dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – migrating from Grafana Loki, we created a cool dashboard to display various statistics on AWS NAT Gateway traffic. But there is a small drawback: all the… Read More »

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VictoriaLogs: a Grafana dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – migrating from Grafana Loki
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7 December 2024

In the previous post – AWS: VPC Flow Logs – logs to S3 and Grafana dashboard with Loki, we created a Grafana dashboard that displays NAT Gateway traffic usage statistics. What we were interested in there was which Kubernetes Pods use the most bytes, because it directly affects our AWS Costs. And everything appears to… Read More »

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AWS: VPC Flow Logs – logs to S3 and Grafana dashboard with Loki
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7 December 2024

Continuing the topic about AWS: VPC Flow Logs, NAT Gateways, and Kubernetes Pods – a detailed overview. There we analyzed how to work with VPC Flow Logs in general, and learned how we can get information about traffic to/from Kubernetes Pods. But there is one problem when using Flow Logs with CloudWatch Logs – the… Read More »

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