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The [Prometheus package](https://github.com/korfuri/django-prometheus) for Django provides a great Prometheus integration, but the open source dashboards and alerts that exist are not that great. The to-go [Grafana dashboard](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/9528-django-prometheus/) does not use a large portion of metrics …
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RabbitMQ has a native built-in Prometheus plugin and by default it has granular metrics disabled. Granular metrics means per-queue/vhost metrics - detailed metrics that provide message lag and consumer info on a `queue` and `vhost` …
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Apollo GraphQL and NestJS are gaining traction quickly, however the monitoring approaches are unclear. At the moment (late 2021 / early 2022) there are no default exporters or libraries for Prometheus metrics and the same …
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Kubernetes InitContainers are a neat way to run arbitrary code before your container starts. It ensures that certain pre-conditions are met before your app is up and running. For example it allows you to: - …