If you are running an IT system you are most likely using an Observability stack along it. Nowadays, the question’s no more whether or not you need Observability but more like how will you compose your stack. At OVHcloud, we have been running a scalable timeseries backend for years now. During the last year, we […]
Picking our Prometheus’ remote storage Read More »
In our previous posts about choosing a Prometheus remote storage we have seen how to set up a benchmarking infrastructure and how to benchmark promql performance. We have been able to obtain results but the whole benchmark is flawned in many ways: This blog post discuss how we should have benchmark our remote storage. How to
Benchmarking Prometheus like a pro with k6 Read More »
Introduction In the previous post we have discuss how important remote storage are for Prometheus. We have also covered several attention points. In the following post we are covering remote write storage and how to bench them. Context After you have identify one (or more) remote storage who might suit your must bench it. However
Prometheus’ remote storage playground Read More »
At OVHcloud, we recently made a change to our internal Observability stack. After testing and comparing the different solutions on the market, we opted for on open source solution. With this blog post, we’re starting a series of articles to provide feedback on our selection process and what we’ve learned along the way. Our mission
Welcome to Prometheus world of remote storage Read More »
In our previous blog post about observability, we explained how to build a comprehensive view of how your SQL workloads behave, and the many reasons why it is important to have this view. In this blog post, we will take a closer look into the four types of SQL query, and how they can impact
Explaining slow queries to my manager Read More »
Our team of database administrators used to be overwhelmed by our developers’ needs. Picture this: we had only 1.5 database admins per more than 400 tech people (DevOps, developers etc.), with only 24 hours in a day! This was a perfect use-case for observability. But what is observability, apart from a buzzword? To me, observability is
Improve your SQL workload with observability Read More »
In our tour of OVHcloud’s Internal Databases Infrastructure, we showed you what our infrastructure looks like. This post will be about SQL replication, why it matters, and how we use it at OVHcloud. Nodes are not enough: they have to work together. To do that, we rely on a feature called replication to keep data
Database replication 101 Read More »
Today, most applications rely directly or indirectly on databases. I would even take a bet and say that a large portion of those are relational databases. At OVHcloud, we rely on several dozens of clusters hosting hundreds of databases to power thousands of applications. Most of those databases power our API, host billing information and
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